Limitation Act, 1963
Bare Act · 1963
An Act to consolidate and amend the law for the limitation of suits and other proceedings and for purposes connected therewith.
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- Act number
- 36 of 1963
- Enacted
- 5 October 1963
- Contents
- 32 sections · 5 chapters
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Contents
Part I — Preliminary
Part II — Limitation Of Suits, Appeals And Applications
- Section 3 – Bar of limitation
- Section 4 – Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed
- Section 5 – Extension of prescribed period in certain cases
- Section 6 – Legal disability
- Section 7 – Disability of one of several persons
- Section 8 – Special exceptions
- Section 9 – Continuous running of time
- Section 10 – Suits against trustees and their representatives
- Section 11 – Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends
Part III — Computation Of Period Of Limitation
- Section 12 – Exclusion of time in legal proceedings
- Section 13 – Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for
- Section 14 – Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction
- Section 15 – Exclusion of time in certain other cases
- Section 16 – Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue
- Section 17 – Effect of fraud or mistake
- Section 18 – Effect of acknowledgment in writing
- Section 19 – Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy
- Section 20 – Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person
- Section 21 – Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant
- Section 22 – Continuing breaches and torts
- Section 23 – Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage
- Section 24 – Computation of time mentioned in instruments
Part IV — Acquisition Of Ownership By Possession
- Section 25 – Acquisition of easements by prescription
- Section 26 – Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement
- Section 27 – Extinguishment of right to property
Part V — Miscellaneous
- Section 28 – [Repealed.]
- Section 29 – Savings
- Section 30 – Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908.
- Section 31 – Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc
- Section 32 – [Repealed.] THE SCHEDULE. THE LIMITATION ACT, 1963