The Limitation Act, 1963

The Limitation Act, 1963

Section 1 The Limitation Act, 1963: Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2 The Limitation Act, 1963: Definitions.
Section 3 The Limitation Act, 1963: Bar of limitation.
Section 4 The Limitation Act, 1963: Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed.
Section 5 The Limitation Act, 1963: Extension of prescribed period in certain cases.
Section 6 The Limitation Act, 1963: Legal disability.
Section 7 The Limitation Act, 1963: Disability of one of several persons.
Section 8 The Limitation Act, 1963: Special exceptions.
Section 9 The Limitation Act, 1963: Continuous running of time.
Section 10 The Limitation Act, 1963: Suits against trustees and their representatives.
Section 11 The Limitation Act, 1963: Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends.
Section 12 The Limitation Act, 1963: Exclusion of time in legal proceedings.
Section 13 The Limitation Act, 1963: Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for.
Section 14 The Limitation Act, 1963: Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction.
Section 15 The Limitation Act, 1963: Exclusion of time in certain other cases.
Section 16 The Limitation Act, 1963: Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue.
Section 17 The Limitation Act, 1963: Effect of fraud or mistake.
Section 18 The Limitation Act, 1963: Effect of acknowledgment in writing.
Section 19 The Limitation Act, 1963: Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy.
Section 20 The Limitation Act, 1963: Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person.
Section 21 The Limitation Act, 1963: Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant.
Section 22 The Limitation Act, 1963: Continuing breaches and torts.
Section 23 The Limitation Act, 1963: Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage.
Section 24 The Limitation Act, 1963: Computation of time mentioned in instruments.
Section 25 The Limitation Act, 1963: Acquisition of easement by prescription.
Section 26 The Limitation Act, 1963: Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement.
Section 27 The Limitation Act, 1963: Extinguishment of right to property.
Section 28 The Limitation Act, 1963: Amendment of certain Acts.
Section 29 The Limitation Act, 1963: Savings.
Section 30 The Limitation Act, 1963: Provision for suits, etc .
Section 31 The Limitation Act, 1963: Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc:- Nothing in this Act shall,— (a) enable any suit, appeal or application to be instituted, preferred or made, for which the period of limitation prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908 (9 of 1908), expired before the commencement of this Act; or (b) affect any suit, appeal or application instituted, preferred or made before, and pending at, such commencement.
Section 32 The Limitation Act, 1963: Repeal.