Preamble 1  -             LIMITATION ACT, 1963

Part I  -             PRELIMINARY

Section 1  -             Short title, extent and commencement

Section 2  -             Definitions

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 easement by prescription

Section 26  -             Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement

Section 27  -             Extinguishment of right to property

Part V  -             MISCELLANEOUS

Section 28  -             Amendment of certain Acts [Repealed]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

Schedule 1  -             THE SCHEDULE

Statement of Objects and Reasons   -             LIMITATION ACT, 1963