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…
Section 7: Disability of one of several persons. 7. Where one of several persons jointly entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is under any ‘such disability, and a discharge can be…
Section 6: Legal disability. 6. (1) Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or…
Section 5: Extension of prescribed period in certain cases. 5. Any appeal or any application, other than an application under any of the provisions of Order XXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, (5 of 1908), may be admitted…
Section 4: Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed. 4. Where the prescribed period for any suit, appeal or application expires on a day when the court is closed, the suit, appeal or application may be instituted, preferred or…
Section 3: Bar of limitation. 3. (1) Subject to the provisions contained in sections 4 to 24 (inclusive), every suit instituted, appeal preferred, and application made after the prescribed period shall be dismissed, although limitation has not been set up as a defence. (2)…