Some of the earlier statutes provided that if when the cause of action accrued in his favor the plaintiff was beyond the seas, an expression which in the United States has been held to mean without the limits of the state,1 the statutes of limitations do not run against him until his return. This exception has been repealed in many of the modern statutes, and on its repeal such absence of the plaintiff does not prevent limitations from running.

4 Rowland v. McGuire, 64 Ark. 412; 42 S. W. 1068; Lindell Real Estate Co. v. Lindell, 142 Mo. 61; 43 S. W. 368; Campbell v. Crater, 95 N. C. 156; Ashley v. Rockwell, 43 O. S. 386; 2 N. E. 437.

5 Wilkes v. Allen, 131 N. C. 279; 42 S. E. 616.

6 Parrett v. Palmer, 8 Ind. App.

356; 52 Am. St. Rep. 479; 35 N. E.

713; Fawcett v. Faweett, 85 Wis.

332; 39 Am. St. Rep. 844; 55 N.

W. 405; Second National Bank v. Merrill, 81 Wis. 151; 29 Am. St. Rep. 877; 50 N. W. 505.

7Gudden v. Gudden's Estate, 113 Wis. 297; 89 N. W. 111.

8 Grade's Estate, 158 Pa. St. 521; 27 Atl. 1083.

1 Downs v. Allen, 10 Lea (Tenn.) 652.

1 Bank of Alexandria v. Dyer, 14 Pet. (U. S.) 141 (under Maryland law) ; Davie v. Briggs, 97 U. S.