Section 4 Limitation Act
4. Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed. Where the prescribed period for any suit, appeal or application expires on a day when theRead More →
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4. Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed. Where the prescribed period for any suit, appeal or application expires on a day when theRead More →
5. Extension of prescribed period in certain cases. Any appeal or any application, other than an application under any of the provisions of Order XXIRead More →
6. Legal disability. (1) Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree, is at theRead More →
7. Disability of one of several persons. Where one of several persons jointly entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the executionRead More →
8. Special exceptions. Nothing in section 6 or in section 7 applies to suits to enforce rights of pre-emption, or shall be deemed to extend,Read More →
9. Continuous running of time. Where once time has begun to run, no subsequent disability or inability to institute a suit or make an applicationRead More →
10. Suits against trustees and their representatives. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Act, no suit against a person in whom propertyRead More →
11. Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends. (1) Suits instituted in the territories to which this Act extendsRead More →
PART III – COMPUTATION OF PERIOD OF LIMITATION 12. Exclusion of time in legal proceedings. (1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit, appeal orRead More →
13. Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for. In computing the period of limitation prescribedRead More →
14. Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction. (1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit the time duringRead More →
15. Exclusion of time in certain other cases. (1) In computing the period of limitation of any suit or application for the execution of aRead More →
16. Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue. (1) Where a person who would, if he were living, haveRead More →
17. Effect of fraud or mistake. (1) Where, in the case of any suit or application for which a period of limitation is prescribed byRead More →
18. Effect of acknowledgement in writing. (1) Where, before the expiration of the prescribed period for a suit or application in respect of any propertyRead More →
19. Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy. Where payment on account of a debt or of interest on aRead More →
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