THE LIMITATION ACT, 1963

ACT NO. 36 OF 1963 · Enacted [5th October, 1963.] · 32 sections

PRELIMINARY

Section 1.Short title, extent and commencement.

Section 2.Definitions.

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.

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.

ACQUISITION OF OWNERSHIP BY POSSESSION

Section 25.Acquisition of easements by prescription.

Section 26.Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement.

Section 27.Extinguishment of right to property.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 28.[Repealed.]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Section 32.[Repealed.]