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Table of Contents
Content
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Amendment of certain Acts [Repealed]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Repealed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
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