Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Extension of limitation period in case of disability
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 a…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Actions claiming movable property of deceased
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 wi…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Actions concerning trust property
(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…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Actions to recover mortgage money or proceeds of sale of land
(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 reco…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Equitable interests
(1) Subject to section 20(1) of this Act, this Act applies to equitable interests in land, including interests in the proceeds of…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Title extinguished at end of limitation period
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 recov…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Administration dates back to death
For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to actions for the recovery of land, an administrator of the estate of a d…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Right of action not preserved by formal entry or continual claim
For the purposes of this Act, no person is taken to have been in possession of any land by reason only of his having made a formal…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Redemption actions
Where a mortgagee of land has been in possession, as mortgagee, of any of the mortgaged land for a period of twelve years, no acti…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Right of action not to accrue or continue unless adverse possession
(1) A right of action to recover land does not accrue unless the land is in the possession of some person in whose favour the peri…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Accrual of right of action in case of certain tenancies
(1) A tenancy at will is taken to be determined at the end of one year from its commencement, unless it has previously been determ…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Accrual of right of action in case of forfeiture of breach of condition
A right of action to recover land by virtue of a forfeiture or breach of condition accrues on the date on which the liability to f…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Accrual of right of action in case of future interest in land
(1) Subject to this section, where a person brings an action to recover land, and the estate or interest claimed was an estate or…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Accrual of right of action in case of present interest in land
(1) Where the person bringing an action to recover land, or some person through whom he claims, has been in possession of the land…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Actions to recover rent
An action may not be brought, and distress may not be made, to recover arrears of rent, or damages in respect thereof, after the e…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Actions to recover land
An action may not be brought by any person to recover land after the end of twelve years from the date on which the right of actio…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Successive conversions, and extinction of title to converted goods
(1) Where any cause of action in respect of the conversion or wrongful detention of movable property has accrued to any person and…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Action for contribution from tortfeasor
(1) Where under section 3 of the Law Reform Act (Cap. 26) a tortfeasor (in this section referred to as the first tortfeasor) becom…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Actions of contract and tort and certain other actions
(1) The following actions may not be brought after the end of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued— (a) ac…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Part subject to Part III
This Part is subject to Part III of this Act, which provides for the extension of the periods of limitation in the case of disabil…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Interpretation
(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires— “arbitration” means an arbitration on a submission or under a writte…
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Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22▤
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Limitation of Actions Act.
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