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: Amendment of certain Acts
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,
Section 32: Repeal
General note on articles
The Schedule
First division: Suits
Second division: Appeals
Third division: Applications
Appendix