Limitation Act, 1963
Section 16, Limitation Act: Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue
Section 16 of the Limitation Act, 1963, in the Act's own words.
The section
16. Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right to sue.
(1) Where a person who would, if he were living, have a right to institute a suit or make an application dies before the right accrues, or where a right to institute a suit or make an application accrues only on the death of a person, the period of limitation shall be computed from the time when there is a legal representative of the deceased capable of instituting such suit or making such application. (2) Where a person against whom, if he were living, a right to institute a suit or make an application would have accrued dies before the right accrues, or where a right to institute a suit or make an application against any person accrues on the death of such person, the period of limitation shall be computed from the time when there is a legal representative of the deceased against whom the plaintiff may institute such suit or make such application. (3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) applies to suits to enforce rights of pre-emption or to suits for the possession of immovable property or of a hereditary office.The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.
The periods themselves are in the Schedule: every article, with its period and when time begins to run.
Sources
- India Code: Limitation Act, 1963, section 16 (read 1 September 2026)