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Limitation Act, 1963

Section 27, Limitation Act: Extinguishment of right to property

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 27 of the Limitation Act, 1963, in the Act's own words.

The section

27. Extinguishment of right to property.

At the determination of the period hereby limited to any person for instituting a suit for possession of any property, his right to such property shall be extinguished.

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 27 (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.