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Limitation Act, 1908
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PART I
PRELEMINARY
1
Short title, extent and commencement.
2
Definitions.
PART II
LIMITATION OF SUITS, APPEALS AND APPLICATIONS
3
Dismissal of suits, etc., instituted, etc., after period of limitation.
4
Where Court is closed when period expires.
5
Extension of period in certain cases.
6
Legal disability.
7
Disability of one of several plaintiffs or applicants.
8
Special exceptions.
9
Continuous running of time.
10
Suits against express trustees and their representatives.
11
Suits on foreign contracts.
PART III
COMPUTATION OF PERIOD OF LIMITATION
12
Exclusion of time in legal proceedings.
13
Exclusion of time of defendants, absence from Pakistan and certain other territories.
14
Exclusion of time of proceeding
bona fide
in Court without jurisdiction.
15
Exclusion of time during which proceedings are suspended.
16
Exclusion of time during which proceedings to set aside execution-sale are pending.
17
Effect of death before right to sue accrues.
18
Effect of fraud.
19
Effect of acknowledgment in writing.
20
Effect of payment on account of debt or of interest on legacy.
Effect of receipt of produce of mortgaged land.
21
Agent of person under disability.
Acknowledgement or payment by one of several joint contractors, etc.
22
Effect of substituting or adding new plaintiff or defendant.
23
Continuing breaches and wrongs.
24
Suit for compensation for act not actionable without special damage.
25
Computation of time mentioned in instruments.
PART IV
ACQUISITION OF OWNERSHIP BY POSSESSION
26
Acquisition of right to easements.
27
Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement.
28
[Omitted.]
Part V
SAVING AND REPEALS
29
Savings.
30 to 32
[Repealed.]
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
LIMITATION
THE SECOND AND THIRD SCHEDULES
[Repealed.]
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