Lim 6 — Legal disability

Limitation Act, 1963

Statutory text

(1)  Where  a  person  entitled  to  institute  a  suit  or  make  an  application  for  the
execution of a decree is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or insane,
or an idiot, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the disability has
ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time specified there for in the third column of the Schedule.

(2) Where such person is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, affected by
two  such  disabilities,  or  where,  before  his  disability  has ceased,  he  is  affected  by  another  disability,  he
may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after both disabilities have ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so specified.
(3) Where the disability continues up to the death of that person, his legal representative may institute
the  suit  or  make  the  application  within  the  same  period  after  the  death,  as  would  otherwise  have  been allowed from the time so specified.
(4)  Where  the  legal  representative  referred  to in  sub-section  (3)  is,  at  the  date  of  the  death  of  the person whom he  represents, affected  by any such disability, the  rules  contained sub-sections (1) and (2)
shall apply.
(5)  Where  a  person  under  disability  dies  after  the  disability  ceases  but  within  the period  allowed  to
him  under  this  section,  his  legal  representative  may  institute  the  suit  or  make  the  application  within  the same period after the death, as would otherwise have been available to that person had he not died.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, ‘minor’ includes a child in the womb.

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