Section 17: Effect of fraud or mistake. 17. (1) Where, in the case of any suit or application for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act,— (a) the suit or application is based upon the fraud of…
Section 16: Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue. 16. (1) Where a person who would, if he were living, have a right to institute a suit or make an application dies before the…
Section 15: Exclusion of time In certain other cases. 15. (1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit or application for the execution of a decree, the institution or execution of which has been stayed by injunction or…
Section 14: Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction. 14. (1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit the time during which the plaintiff has been prosecuting with due diligence another civil proceeding, whether…
Section 13: Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for. 13. In computing the period of limitation prescribed for any suit or appeal in any case where an application for leave…
Section 12: Exclusion of time in legal proceedings. 12. (1) In computing the period of limitation for any suit, appeal or application, the day from which such period is to be reckoned, shall be excluded. (2) In computing the period…
Section 11: Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends. 11. (1) Suits instituted in the territories to which this Act extends on contracts entered into in the State of Jammu and Kashmir or in…
Section 10: Suits against trustees and their representatives. 10. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Act, no suit against a person in whom property has become vested in trust for any specific purpose, or against his legal representatives…
Section 9: Continuous running of time. 9. Where once time has begun to run, no subsequent disability or inability to institute a suit or make an application stops it: Provided that, where letters of administration to the estate of a creditor…
Section 8: Special exceptions. 8. Nothing in section 6 or in section 7 applies to suits to enforce rights of pre-emption, or shall be deemed to extend, for more than three years from the cessation of the disability or the death of the person…