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Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963) Complete Act - Bare Act

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Act Info:
Preamble1 - LIMITATION ACT, 1963
Part I
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Part II
Section3 - Bar of limitation
Section4 - Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed
Section5 - Extension of prescribed period in certain cases
Section6 - Legal disability
Section7 - Disability of one of several persons
Section8 - Special exceptions
Section9 - Continuous running of time
Section10 - Suits against trustees and their representatives
Section11 - Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends
Part III
Section12 - Exclusion of time in legal proceedings
Section13 - Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for
Section14 - Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction
Section15 - Exclusion of time in certain other cases
Section16 - Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue
Section17 - Effect of fraud or mistake
Section18 - Effect of acknowledgment in writing
Section19 - Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy
Section20 - Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person
Section21 - Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant
Section22 - Continuing breaches and torts
Section23 - Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage
Section24 - Computation of time mentioned in instruments
Part IV
Section25 - Acquisition of easement by prescription
Section26 - Exclusion in favour of reversioner of serIvent tenement
Section27 - Extinguishment of right to property
Part V
Section28 - Amendment of certain Acts [Repealed]
Section29 - Savings
Section30 - Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908
Section31 - Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc.
Section32 - Repealed
Schedule1 - THE SCHEDULE


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