Lim 20 — Effect of acknowledgment or payment by another person

Limitation Act, 1963

Statutory text

(1)  The  expression “agent  duly
authorised in this behalf” in sections 18 and 19 shall, in the case of a person under disability, include his
lawful  guardian,  committee  or  manager  or  an  agent  duly  authorised  by  such  guardian,  committee  or manager to sign the acknowledgment or make the payment.
(2)  Nothing  in  the said  sections  renders  one  of  several  joint  contractors,  partners,  executors  or
mortgagees chargeable by reason only of a written acknowledgment signed by, or of a payment made by, or by the agent of, any other or others of them.
(3) For the purposes of the said sections,—
(a)  an  acknowledgment  signed  or a  payment  made  in  respect of  any  liability  by, or  by  the  duly
authorised agent  of,  any  limited  owner  of  property  who  is  governed  by  Hindu  law,  shall  be  a  valid
acknowledgment or payment, as the  case  may be,  against a  reversioner succeeding to such liability;
and
(b) where a liability has been incurred by, or on behalf of a Hindu undivided family as such, an
acknowledgment or payment made by, or by the duly authorised agent of, the manager of the family for the time being shall be deemed to have been made on behalf of the whole family.

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