Section 17. Effect of fraud or mistake (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 the…
Section 16. Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue – (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 (1) In computing the period of limitation of any suit or application for the execution of a decree, the institution or execution of which has been stayed by injunction or order,…
Section 14. Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction (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 in…
COMPUTATION OF PERIOD OF LIMITATION Sections 12 to 18 of the Limitation Act deals with the computation of periods of limitation. What days or periods have to be excluded from calculation of period of limitation is provided in these sections.…
Section 8 Special Exceptions Section 8 Special Exceptions: 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 disability…
Section 7. Disability of one of several persons Section 7. Disability of one of several persons Where one of several persons jointly entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is under any…
Section 6. Legal disability Section 6. Legal disability (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,…
Section 5. Extension of prescribed period in certain cases: Any appeal or any application, other than an application under any of the provisions of Order XXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, may be, admitted after the prescribed period,…
Section 3. Bar of limitation (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…