The Indian Limitation Act 1871, 9 of 1871, (Rep., Act 15 of 1877)

Section 29

Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08

29. At the determination of the period hereby limited to any person for instituting a suit for possession of any land or hereditary office, his right to such land or office shall be extinguished. Exclusion in favour of reversioner of servient tenement. FIRST Limitation. [ACT IX] FIRST SCHEDULE. (See section 2.) | Number and-year. | Subject or title. | Extent of repeal. | | --- | --- | --- | | 21 Jac. I, cap. sixteen. | An Act for limitation of actions and for avoiding of suits in law. | The whole Statute, so far as it applies to British India. | | 4 Ann. cap. sixteen. | An Act for the amendment of the law and the better advancement of justice. | Sections seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so far as they apply to British India. | | 33 Geo. III, cap. fifty-two. | An Act for continuing in the East India Company, for a further term, the possession of the British territories in India, together with their exclusive trade, under certain limitations; for establishing further regulations for the Government of the said territories, and the better administration of justice within the same; for appropriating to certain uses the revenues and profits of the said Company; and for making provision for the good order and government of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. | So much of section one-hundred-and-sixty-two as relates to the limitation of civil suits in British India. | | 53 Geo. III, cap. one hundred and fifty-five. | An Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further term, the possession of the British territories in India, together with certain exclusive privileges; for establishing further Regulations for the government of the said territories, and the better administration of justice within the same; and for regulating the trade to and from the places within the limits of the said Company. | Section one-hundred-and-twenty-four, so far as it applies to British India. | | 9 Geo. IV, cap. seventy-four. | Administration of Criminal justice | So much of section fifty-one as relates to civil suits. | 1871.] Limitation. 171

Source: India Code