Bare Acts

The Limitation Act, 1963

An Act to consolidate and amend the law for the limitation of suits and other proceedings and for purposes connected therewith.

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Act Details

Act Number:

Act Year:

1963

Location:

Chhattisgarh

Enactment Date:

10/5/1963

Enforcement Date:

01-01-1964

Department:

Department of LAW AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

Full List of Limitation Act Sections

PRELIMINARY

Section 1 to Section 2

Section 1

Short title, extent and commencement.

Section 2

Definitions.

LIMITATION OF SUITS, APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS

Section 3 to Section 11

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 to Section 24

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 to Section 27

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 to Section 32

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Repealed.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.