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PART I – PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Limitation Act, 1963. (2) It extends to theRead More →
2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) “applicant” includes- (i) a petitioner; (ii) any person from or through whom an applicantRead More →
PART II – LIMITATION OF SUITS, APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS 3. Bar of limitation. (1) Subject to the provisions contained in sections 4 to 24 (inclusive), every suitRead More →
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 →
20. Effect of acknowledgement or payment by another person. (1) The expression “agent duly authorised in this behalf” in sections 18 and 19 shall, inRead More →
21. Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant. (1) Where after the institution of a suit, a new plaintiff or, defendant is substitutedRead More →
22. Continuing breaches and torts. In the case of a continuing breach of contract or in the case of a continuing tort, a fresh periodRead More →
23. Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage. In the case of a suit for compensation for an act which does notRead More →
24. Computation of time mentioned in instruments. All instruments shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be made with reference to theRead More →
PART IV – ACQUISITION OF OWNERSHIP BY POSSESSION 25. Acquisition of easement by prescription. (1) Where the access and use of light or air to and forRead More →
26. Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement. Where any land or water upon, over or from, which any easement has been enjoyed orRead More →
27. Extinguishment of right to property. At the determination of the period hereby limited to any person for instituting a suit for possession of anyRead More →
PART V – MISCELLANEOUS 28. Amendment of certain Acts. [Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974 (56 of 1974) s. 2 and First Sch.] Read More →
29. Saving. (1) Nothing in this Act shall affect Section 25 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. (2) Where any special or local law prescribesRead More →
30. Provision for suits, etc, for the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908. Notwithstanding anything contained inRead More →
31. Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc. Nothing in this Act shall- (a) enable any suit, appeal or application to be instituted, preferredRead More →
32. Repeal. [Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974 (56 of 1974)] Limitation Act, 1963 full Bare Act. Download beautiful Limitation Act PDF.Read More →
