Limitation Act, 1963
Section 8, Limitation Act: Special exceptions
Section 8 of the Limitation Act, 1963, in the Act's own words.
The section
8. Special exceptions.
Nothing in section 6 or in section 7 applies to suits to enforce rights of pre-emption, or shall be deemed to extend, for more than three years from the cessation of the disability or the death of the person affected thereby, the period of limitation for any suit or application.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 8 (read 1 September 2026)