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               Description of suit             Period of limitation      Time from which period begins to run
107. For possession of a hereditary              Twelve years.        When the defendant takes possession of
        office.                                                         the office adversely to the plaintiff.
     Explanation.—A hereditary office
        is possessed when the properties
        thereof are usually received, or
        (if there are no properties) when
        the duties thereof are usually
        performed.
108. Suit during the life of a Hindu or          Twelve years.        The date of the alienation.
        Muslim female by a Hindu or
        Muslim who, if the female died
        at the date of instituting the suit,
        would be entitled to the
        possession of land, to have an
        alienation of such land made by
        the female declared to be void
        except for her life or until her re-
        marriage.
109. By      a Hindu governed by                 Twelve years.           e
                                                                      When the alienee takes possession of the
          Mitakshara law to set aside his
          father’s alienation of ancestral
                                                                 od     property.

          property.
110. By a person excluded from a joint
                                                          aC
                                                 Twelve years.        When the exclusion becomes known to
       family property to enforce a
       right to share therein.
                                                     di                 the plaintiff.

111. By or on behalf of any local
                                                 In
                                             Thirty years. The date of the dispossession or
       authority for possession of any                       discontinuance.
       public street or road or any part
       thereof from which it has been
       dispossessed or of which it has
       discontinued the possession.
112. Any suit (except a suit before the      Thirty years. When the period of limitation would
       Supreme Court in the exercise of                      begin to run under this Act against a
       its original jurisdiction) by or on                   like suit by a private person.
       behalf      of      the     Central
       Government or any State
       Government, including the
       Government of the State of
       Jammu and Kashmir.
                    PART X.—SUITS FOR WHICH THERE IS NO PRESCRIBED PERIOD
113. Any suit for which no period of         Three years.  When the right to sue accrues.
       limitation is provided elsewhere
       in this Schedule.
                                        SECOND DIVISION—APPEALS
114. Appeal from an order of
       acquittal,—
       (a)under sub-section (1) or sub-      Ninety days.   The date of the order appealed from.
          section (2) of section 417 of
          the    Code       of   Criminal
          Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898);
       (b)under sub-section (3) of            Thirty days.  The date of the grant of special leave.
          section 417 of that Code.



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