Commentary on Limitation Act

Justice M L Singhal's Commentary on Limitation Act (Act No 36 of 1963) with Special Emphasis Upon:

• Bar of Limitation
• Period of Limitation
• Condonation of Delay
• Adverse Possession
• Limitation in Criminal Proceedings

PART I PRELIMINARY SECTIONS
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 easements by prescription
26. Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement
27. Extinguishment of right to property

PART V MISCELLANEOUS SECTIONS
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 [Repealed.]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 [Repealed.]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