The Limitation Act, 1963

With State Amendments and
Model Specimens of Affidavit for Condonation of Delay
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Contents
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 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 easement by prescription
26.  Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement
27.  Extinguishment of right to property
PART V MISCELLANEOUS
28.  [Repealed]
29.  Savings
30.  Provision for suits, etc., for which the prescribed period is shorter than the period
        prescribed by the Indian Limitation Act, 1908
31.  Provisions as to barred or pending suits, etc.
32.  [Repealed]
THE SCHEDULE—Periods of Limitation
MODEL SPECIMENS
•    Affidavit to Condone Delay in Setting Aside ex parte Order
•    Affidavit Accompanying the Application to Condone the Delay in Filing an
     Application to Set Aside an ex parte Order
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