1[An Act to consolidate and amend the law for the Limitation of Suits, and for other purposes.
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the limitation of suits, appeals and certain applications to Courts; and whereas it is also expedient to provide rules for acquiring by possession the ownership of easements and other property; It is hereby enacted as follows:-
CONTENTS
SECTIONS
1. Short title, extent and commencement
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
7. Disability of one of several plaintiffs or applicants
10. Suits against express trustees and their representatives
11. Suits on foreign contracts
12. Exclusion of time in legal proceedings
13. Exclusion of time of defendant’s absence from Bangladesh 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
19. Effect of acknowledgement in writing
20. Effect of payment on account of debt as of interest on legacy
21. Agent of persons under disability
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
26. Acquisition of right to easements
27. Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement.
28. Extinguishment of right to property
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