Limitation Act, 1963

(Act no. 36 of 1963)

Contents
Sections	Particulars
	Preamble
Part I	Preliminary
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
7	Disability of one of several persons
8	Special exceptions
9	Continuous running of time
10	Suits against trustees and their representatives
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 of 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 to acknowledgment in writing
19	Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest or 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 favor of reversioner of servant tenement
27	Extinguishment of right to property
Part V	Miscellaneous
28	Amendment of certain Acts
29	Savings
30	Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1980
31	Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc
32	Repeal
Schedule	Period of Limitations
Division I	Suits
Part I	Suits relating to Accounts
Part II	Suits relating to Contracts
Part III	Suits relating to Declarations
Part IV	Suits relating to decrees and instruments
Part V	Suits relating to Immovable Property
Part VI	Suits relating to movable property
Part VII	Suits relating to torts
Part VIII	Suits relating to trust and trust property
Part IX	Suits relating to miscellaneous maters
Part X	Suits for which there is no prescribed period
Division II	Appeals
Division III	Applications
Part I	Applications in specified cases
Part II	Other applications