No statute of limitation running on a claim for relief belonging to a decedent which had not been barred as of the date of the decedent's death applies to bar a claim for relief surviving the decedent's death sooner than four months after death. A claim for relief which, but for this section, would have been barred less than four months after death is barred after four months unless tolled.
N.D.C.C. § 30.1-12-09