LIMITATION ACT, 1963

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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Section 28 - Amendment of certain Acts [Repealed]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Section 32 - Repealed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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