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The Limitation Act, 1963
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01-01-1964
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.
Ministry of Law and Justice
Legislative Department
Chapters, and Sections
Chapter 1 - Preliminary
1 - Short title, extent and commencement.
2 - Definitions.
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Chapter 2 - Limitation Of Suits, Appeals And Applications
3 - Bar of limitation
4 - Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed
5 - Extension of prescribed period in certain cases
6 - Legal disability
7 - Disability of one of several persons
8 - Special exceptions
9 - Continuous running of time
10 - Suits against trustees and their representatives
11 - Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends
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Chapter 3 - Computation Of Period Of Limitation
12 - Exclusion of time in legal proceedings
13 - Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for
14 - Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction
15 - Exclusion of time in certain other cases
16 - Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue
17 - Effect of fraud or mistake
18 - Effect of acknowledgment in writing
19 - Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy
20 - Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person
21 - Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant
22 - Continuing breaches and torts
23 - Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage
24 - Computation of time mentioned in instruments
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Chapter 4 - Acquisition Of Ownership By Possession
25 - Acquisition of easements by prescription
26 - Exclusion in favour of reversioner of serivent tenement
27 - Extinguishment of right to property
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Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous
28 - [Amendment of certain Acts.]
29 - Savings
30 - Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908
31 - Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc
32 - [Repeal.]
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