Limitations on Malicious Arrest

Limitations for filing actions based on malicious prosecution are found in MS Code Ann 15-1-35:

All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, for failure to employ, and for libels, shall be commenced within one (1) year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.

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