Section 15 of Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22: Right of action not preserved by formal entry or continual claim

For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to actions for the recovery of land, an administrator of the estate of a deceased person is taken to claim as if there had been no interval of...

Subject to section 18 of this Act, at the expiration of the period prescribed by this Act for a person to bring an action to recover land (including a redemption action), the title of that person to...

(1) Subject to section 20(1) of this Act, this Act applies to equitable interests in land, including interests in the proceeds of the sale of land held upon trust for sale, in like manner as it...

(1) An action may not be brought to recover a principal sum of money secured by a mortgage on land or movable property, or to recover proceeds of the sale of land, after the end of twelve years from...

(1) None of the periods of limitation prescribed by this Act apply to an action by a beneficiary under a trust, which is an action— (a) in respect of a fraud or fraudulent breach of trust to which...

Subject to section 20(1) of this Act, an action in respect of a claim to movable property of a deceased person, whether under a will or on intestacy, may not be brought after the end of twelve years...

If, on the date when a right of action accrues for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act, the person to whom it accrues is under a disability, the action may be brought at any time...

(1) Where— (a) a right of action (including a foreclosure action) to recover land; or (b) a right of a mortgagee of movable property to bring a foreclosure action in respect of the property, has...

(1) Every acknowledgement of the kind mentioned in section 23 of this Act must be in writing and signed by the person making it. (2) The acknowledgement or payment mentioned in section 23 of this...

(1) An acknowledgement of the title to any land or mortgaged movable property, by any person in possession thereof, binds all other persons in possession during the ensuing period of limitation....

Where, in the case of an action for which a period of limitation is prescribed, either— (a) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant or his agent, or of any person through whom he claims...

(1) Section 4(2) does not afford a defence to an action founded on tort where— (a) the action is for damages for negligence, nuisance or breach of duty (whether the duty exists by virtue of a...

(1) An application for the leave of the court for the purposes of section 27 of this Act shall be made ex parte, except in so far as rules of court may otherwise provide in relation to applications...

(1) In relation to an action to which section 27 of this Act applies, being an action in respect of one or more causes of action surviving for the benefit of the estate of a deceased person by virtue...

(1) In sections 27, 28 and 29 of this Act, any reference to the material facts relating to a cause of action is a reference to one or more of the following— (a) the fact that personal injuries...

Where a period of limitation is prescribed for any action or arbitration by any other written law, that written law shall be construed as if Part III of this Act were incorporated in it.

(1) Where— (a) the access and use of light or air to and for any building have been enjoyed with the building as an easement; or (b) any way or watercourse, or the use of any water, has been...

Where any land upon, over or from which any easement has been enjoyed or derived has been held for or by virtue of an interest for life or a term of years exceeding three years, the time while the...

(1) This Act and any other written law relating to the limitation of actions apply to arbitrations as they apply to actions. (2) Where a submission contains a term that no cause of action shall...

For the purposes of this Act and any other written law relating to the limitation of actions, any claim by way of set-off or counterclaim is taken to be a separate action and to have been commenced on...

Nothing in this Act affects any equitable jurisdiction to refuse relief on the grounds of acquiescence or otherwise.

This Act applies to land registered under the Government Lands Act (Cap. 280), the Registration of Titles Act (Cap. 281), the Land Titles Act (Cap. 282) or the Registered Land Act (Cap. 300), in the...

(1) Where a person claims to have become entitled by adverse possession to land registered under any of the Acts cited in section 37 of this Act, or land comprised in a lease registered under any of...

(1) A period of limitation does not run if— (a) there is a contract not to plead limitation; or (b) that the person attempting to plead limitation is estopped from so doing. (2) For the purposes...

(1) The law relating to the limitation of actions, whether contained in this Act or in any other written law, applies to actions in the courts of Kenya arising outside, as well as within, Kenya:...

This Act does not— (a) enable a person to acquire any title to, or any easement over— (i) Government land or land otherwise enjoyed by the Government; (ii) mines or minerals as defined in the...

(1) This Act does not apply to— (a) criminal proceedings; or (b) matrimonial proceedings; or (c) an action to recover possession of Trust land; or (d) proceedings by the Government to recover...

Subject to— (a) section 33 of the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force) Act (Cap. 200); (b) section 136 of the Government Lands Act (Cap. 280) (as amended by this Act); and (c) sections 41 and 42...

Nothing in this Act— (a) enables any action to be brought which was barred before the commencement of this Act by any written law repealed, or which in its application to Kenya is repealed, by this...

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the period of limitation for a cause of action which arose before the commencement of this Act shall, if it has not then already ended, end at the time...

The Arbitration Act (Cap. 49) is amended by inserting therein, immediately after section 18 thereof, a new section as follows— 18A. Power of court to extend time for commencing arbitration...