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

THE SCHEDULE
FIRST DIVISION : SUITS

SECOND DIVISION - APPEALS

THIRD DIVISION - APPLICATIONS

Part II: Law of Limitation in Criminal Trials
Appendix