Limitation Act, 1963

Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencement

Section - 2 - Definitions

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

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

Section - 25 - Acquisition of easements by prescription

Section - 26 - Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement

Section - 27 - Extinguishment of right to property

Section - 28 - Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974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Section - 32 - Repealed by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1974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 - PERIODS OF LIMITATION

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