Statutory Limitation Period Calculator
Calculate precise statutory limitation deadlines for suits, High Court appeals, SLPs, and insolvency petitions. Features Section 12 certified copy exclusions and Section 18 fresh limitation resets.
Statute: Limitation Act, 1963 | Citation: Articles 19, 20 & 22
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3 years from the date the money became due, loan was disbursed, or goods delivered.
Days between application for certified copy and preparation are statutorily excluded.
Statutory Maintenance & Delay Condonation Rules
Subject to sections 4 to 24, every suit instituted, appeal preferred, and application made after the prescribed period shall be dismissed, even if limitation has not been set up as a defence by the respondent.
Where the prescribed period expires on a day when the court is closed (e.g. court summer/winter vacation or public holiday), the suit, appeal or application may be instituted on the day the court reopens.
Section 5 does NOT apply to original suits. A debt-barred suit must be dismissed under Section 3. In Collector Land Acquisition v. Katiji (1987), the Supreme Court held that the judiciary should adopt a pragmatic approach and not pedantic when considering delay condonation in appeals.