Limitation Act, 1963 – Section wise Bare Act

The Limitation Act, 1963

Part-I Preliminary

Section-1 Short title, extent and commencement

Section-2 Definitions

Part-II 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

Part-III 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

Part-IV 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

Part-V Miscellaneous

Section-28 Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974

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-30A Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Limitation Act, samvat 1995

Section-31 Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc.

Section-32 Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974

Schedule

Schedule of Periods of Limitation

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