Bar of limitation (S.3-5)

Your final-year results are out and you want a re-evaluation, but the form closes on a Sunday. Does the deadline quietly move to Monday? Now picture a different student who reaches the office a week late because of illness. Does the law ever forgive her? Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Limitation Act are the answer to both: a hard bar, a rule for the day the court is closed, and a limited power to excuse delay.

In two minutes

Section 3 makes a late suit, appeal or application liable to dismissal even if the defendant does not plead limitation; section 4 lets you file on the day the court reopens if the last day fell on a closure; section 5 lets a court admit a late appeal or application (not a suit) for sufficient cause.

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