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The Central Provinces Tenancy Act, 1898

Section 94. Limitation is suits under the Act.

(1) The period of limitation for a suit instituted by a tenant other than an absolute occupancy-tenant to recover possession of land from which he has been ejected, shall be two years from the date on which he is ejected. (2) Whenever rent is taken by division of the produce or by estimate or appraisement of the crop, and no application is made under section 19, no suit by the landlord for the recovery of the share of the produce claimed by him as rent, or the value thereof, shall lie unless such suit is instituted within a period of one year reckoned from the date on which the rent instalment on account of the harvest to which the (3) In all other cases the limitation of every suit brought under this Act shall be governed by Indian Limitation Act, 1877 (XV of 1877) : Provided that nothing in section 7, 8 and 9 of the said Act shall apply to suits for arrears of rent or for the ejectment of a tenant, or to suits for recovery of possession by a tenant against his landlord.

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