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Section 23, Limitation Act: Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 23 of the Limitation Act, 1963, in the Act's own words.

The section

23. Suits for compensation for acts not actionable without special damage.

In the case of a suit for compensation for an act which does not give rise to a cause of action unless some specific injury actually results therefrom, the period of limitation shall be computed from the time when the injury results.

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

  1. India Code: Limitation Act, 1963, section 23 (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.