Skip to main content

The Limitation Act, 1963

Central

An Act to consolidate and amend the law for the limitation of suits and other proceedings and for purposes connected therewith.

Act number
36 of 1963
Ministry
Ministry of Law and Justice
Department
Legislative Department
Enacted
5 Oct 1963

Source: IndiaCode Portal, Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. Open on India Code Check against the official text before relying on it.

32 sections

  1. Section 1Short title, extent and commencement.
  2. Section 2Definitions.
  3. Section 3Bar of limitation.
  4. Section 4Expiry of prescribed period when court is closed.
  5. Section 5Extension of prescribed period in certain cases.
  6. Section 6Legal disability.
  7. Section 7Disability of one of several persons.
  8. Section 8Special exceptions.
  9. Section 9Continuous running of time.
  10. Section 10Suits against trustees and their representatives.
  11. Section 11Suits on contracts entered into outside the territories to which the Act extends.
  12. Section 12Exclusion of time in legal proceedings.
  13. Section 13Exclusion of time in cases where leave to sue or appeal as a pauper is applied for.
  14. Section 14Exclusion of time of proceeding bona fide in court without jurisdiction.
  15. Section 15Exclusion of time in certain other cases.
  16. Section 16Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue.
  17. Section 17Effect of fraud or mistake.
  18. Section 18Effect of acknowledgment in writing.
  19. Section 19Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy.
  20. Section 20Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person.
  21. Section 21Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant.
  22. Section 22Continuing breaches and torts.
  23. Section 23Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage.
  24. Section 24Computation of time mentioned in instruments.
  25. Section 25Acquisition of easements by prescription.
  26. Section 26Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement.
  27. Section 27Extinguishment of right to property.
  28. Section 28Repealed.
  29. Section 29Savings
  30. Section 30Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908
  31. Section 31Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc
  32. Section 32Repealed.