The Limitation Act, 1963 | Bare Act Overview

Table of Contents

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 [Repealed.]
• 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 [Repealed.]

The Schedule The Schedule
First Division- SUITS

• PART I.—APPLICATIONS IN SPECIFIED CASES
• PART II. —OTHER APPLICATION
• PART III. — Suits Relating To Declarations
• PART IV. — Suits Relating To Decrees And Instruments
• PART V. — Suits Relating To Immovable Property
• PART VI. — Suits Relating To Movable Property
• PART VII. — Suits Relating To Tort
• PART VIII. — Suits Relating To Trusts And Trust Property
• PART IX. — Suits Relating To Miscellaneous Matters
• PART X. — Suits For Which There Is No Prescribed Period

Second Division - APPEALS
Third Division - APPLICATIONS

• PART I.— APPLICATIONS IN SPECIFIED CASES
• PART II.— OTHER APPLICATION