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The Limitation Act, 1963: page 1

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                                    THE LIMITATION ACT, 1963
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                                  ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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                                                   PART I
                                               PRELIMINARY
SECTIONS
   1. Short title, extent and commencement.
   2. Definitions.
                                                   PART II
                            LIMITATION OF SUITS, APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS
   3. Bar of limitation.
   4. Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed.
   5. Extension of prescribed period in certain cases.
   6. Legal disability.                                                e
   7. Disability of one of several persons.                    od
   8. Special exceptions.
   9. Continuous running of time.
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   10. Suits against trustees and their representatives.
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   11. Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends.
                                                   PART III
                                COMPUTATION OF PERIOD OF LIMITATION
   12. Exclusion of time in legal proceedings.
   13. Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for.
   14. Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction.
   15. Exclusion of time in certain other cases.
   16. Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue.
   17. Effect of fraud or mistake.
   18. Effect of acknowledgment in writing.
   19. Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy.
   20. Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person.
   21. Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant.
   22. Continuing breaches and torts.
   23. Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage.
   24. Computation of time mentioned in instruments.
                                                   PART IV
                              ACQUISITION OF OWNERSHIP BY POSSESSION
   25. Acquisition of easements by prescription.
   26. Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement.
   27. Extinguishment of right to property.


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