The Limitation Act, 1963

Official text of the Limitation Act, 1963, added in batches as later units need more of it. This first batch covers the sections relevant to Law of Torts, Unit I.

Section 2 — Definitions

Section 2(m) — "Tort"

"Tort" means a civil wrong which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust.

Section 22 — Continuing breaches and torts

Section 22

In the case of a continuing breach of contract or in the case of a continuing tort, a fresh period of limitation begins to run at every moment of the time during which the breach or the tort, as the case may be, continues.

Section 23 — Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage

Section 23

In the case of a suit for compensation for an act which does not give rise to a cause of action unless some specific injury actually results therefrom, the period of limitation shall be computed from the time when the injury results.

Cited in: Wrongful Act and Legal Damage — Damnum Sine Injuria and Injuria Sine Damno

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