A.R.S. 12-542
Injury to person; injury when death ensues; injury to property; conversion of property; forcible entry and forcible detainer; two year limitation
Except as provided in section 12-551 there shall be commenced and prosecuted within two years after the cause of action accrues, and not afterward, the following actions:
1. For injuries done to the person of another including causes of action for medical malpractice as defined in section 12-561.
2. For injuries done to the person of another when death ensues from such injuries, which action shall be considered as accruing at the death of the party injured.
3. For trespass for injury done to the estate or the property of another.
4. For taking or carrying away the goods and chattels of another.
5. For detaining the personal property of another and for converting such property to one's own use.
6. For forcible entry or forcible detainer, which action shall be considered as accruing at the commencement of the forcible entry or detainer.
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A.R.S. 12-543
Oral debt; stated or open account; relief on ground of fraud or mistake; three year limitation
There shall be commenced and prosecuted within three years after the cause of action accrues, and not afterward, the following actions:
1. For debt where the indebtedness is not evidenced by a contract in writing.
2. Upon stated or open accounts other than such mutual and current accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or agents, but no item of a stated or open account shall be barred so long as any item thereof has been incurred within three years immediately prior to the bringing of an action thereon.
3. For relief on the ground of fraud or mistake, which cause of action shall not be deemed to have accrued until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud or mistake.
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A.R.S. 12-544
Bond to convey realty; partnership account; account between merchants; judgment or instrument given or made without the state; four year limitation
There shall be commenced and prosecuted within four years after the cause of action accrues, and not afterward, the following actions:
1. For the penalty or for damages on the penal clause of a bond to convey real property.
2. By one partner against his copartner for a settlement of the partnership account, or upon mutual and current accounts concerning the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or agents, and the cause of action shall be considered as having accrued upon a cessation of the dealings in which they were interested together.
3. Upon a judgment or decree of a court rendered without the state, or upon an instrument in writing executed without the state. This paragraph does not apply to a judgment for support, as defined in section 25-500, and to associated costs and attorney fees.
4. An action arising under the provisions of title 47, chapter 2, for breach of any contract of sale, which action shall be governed by section 47-2725, notwithstanding any other provision of this section or of section 12-543 or 12-548.
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A.R.S. 12-545, 12-546, 12-547
Bond of personal representative or guardian; four year limitation (12-545)
An action on the bond of an executor, administrator or guardian shall be commenced and prosecuted within four years after the death, resignation, removal or discharge of such executor, administrator or guardian, and not afterward.
Specific performance of contract to convey realty; four year limitation (12-546)
An action for specific performance of a contract for the conveyance of real property shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrues, and not afterward.
Failure to make return on execution; five year limitation (12-547)
When execution has issued and no return is made thereon, the party in whose favor the execution was issued may proceed against the sheriff or other officer and his sureties for not making return within five years from the day on which it was returnable, and not afterward.
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