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Limitation Act, 1963
Selected Schedule entries for money and property suits, appeals, review and execution, including injunction decrees.
Source: India Code — the Act and Schedule. Article numbers below open the same official text.
Quick reference only. Verify against the current text before relying. Sections 4 to 24 (including exclusions and condonation under section 5) can change the computation.
| Article number | Description | Period of limitation | Time from which the period begins |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | For the balance due on a mutual, open and current account, where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties. | Three years. | The close of the year in which the last item admitted or proved is entered in the account; such year to be computed as in the account. |
| 14 | For the price of goods sold and delivered where no fixed period of credit is agreed upon. | Three years. | The date of the delivery of the goods. |
| 15 | For the price of goods sold and delivered to be paid for after the expiry of a fixed period of credit. | Three years. | When the period of credit expires. |
| 19 | For money payable for money lent. | Three years. | When the loan is made. |
| 20 | Like suit when the lender has given a cheque for the money. | Three years. | When the cheque is paid. |
| 21 | For money lent under an agreement that it shall be payable on demand. | Three years. | When the loan is made. |
| 22 | For money deposited under an agreement that it shall be payable on demand, including money of a customer in the hands of his banker so payable. | Three years. | When the demand is made. |
| 26 | For money payable to the plaintiff for money found to be due from the defendant to the plaintiff on accounts stated between them. | Three years. | When the accounts are stated in writing signed by the defendant or his agent duly authorised in this behalf, unless where the debt is, by a simultaneous agreement in writing signed as aforesaid, made payable at a future time, and then when that time arrives. |
| 54 | For specific performance of a contract. | Three years. | The date fixed for the performance, or, if no such date is fixed, when the plaintiff has notice that performance is refused. |
| 58 | To obtain any other declaration. | Three years. | When the right to sue first accrues. |
| 64 | For possession of immovable property based on previous possession and not on title, when the plaintiff while in possession of the property has been dispossessed. | Twelve years. | The date of dispossession. |
| 65 | For possession of immovable property or any interest therein based on title.Explanation (a)–(c)Explanation.—For the purposes of this article— (a) where the suit is by a remainderman, a reversioner (other than a landlord) or a devisee, the possession of the defendant shall be deemed to become adverse only when the estate of the remainderman, reversioner or devisee, as the case may be, falls into possession; (b) where the suit is by a Hindu or Muslim entitled to the possession of immovable property on the death of a Hindu or Muslim female, the possession of the defendant shall be deemed to become adverse only when the female dies; (c) where the suit is by a purchaser at a sale in execution of a decree when the judgment-debtor was out of possession at the date of the sale, the purchaser shall be deemed to be a representative of the judgment-debtor who was out of possession. | Twelve years. | When the possession of the defendant becomes adverse to the plaintiff. |
| 113 | Any suit for which no period of limitation is provided elsewhere in this Schedule. | Three years. | When the right to sue accrues. |
| 116(a) | Under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908)—(a) to a High Court from any decree or order. | Ninety days. | The date of the decree or order. |
| 116(b) | Under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908)—(b) to any other court from any decree or order. | Thirty days. | The date of the decree or order. |
| 117 | From a decree or order of any High Court to the same Court. | Thirty days. | The date of the decree or order. |
| 124 | For a review of judgment by a court other than the Supreme Court. | Thirty days. | The date of the decree or order. |
| 135 | For the enforcement of a decree granting a mandatory injunction. | Three years. | The date of the decree or where a date is fixed for performance, such date. |
| 136 | For the execution of any decree (other than a decree granting a mandatory injunction) or order of any civil court. | Twelve years. | When the decree or order becomes enforceable or where the decree or any subsequent order directs any payment of money or the delivery of any property to be made at a certain date or at recurring periods, when default in making the payment or delivery in respect of which execution is sought, takes place: Provided that an application for the enforcement or execution of a decree granting a perpetual injunction shall not be subject to any period of limitation. |
| 137 | Any other application for which no period of limitation is provided elsewhere in this Division. | Three years. | When the right to apply accrues. |