Free limitation calculator for advocates in India

When does limitation run out?

Pick the proceeding and the date the period runs from. We apply the period the Limitation Act, 1963 prescribes, exclude the start day and, for appeals, the time for a certified copy, and, if the last day falls on a day the court's own calendar shows closed, the day it re-opens (s.4). Every assumption is named.

Proceeding (article of the Schedule)

Date the period runs from The date the Schedule's third column names for your article: for an appeal, the date of the decree or order. DD-MM-YYYY also works.

Court you will file in (for its holidays)

Certified copy (optional; appeals, leave to appeal, revision and review only): one copy, of the decree or order (s.12(2)) or of the judgment (s.12(3))

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What the calculator applies

The period: the article's period, in the Act's words. Days are added as days; years as calendar years (29 February plus a year ends on 28 February).
Section 12(1): “In computing the period of limitation for any suit, appeal or application, the day from which such period is to be reckoned, shall be excluded.”
Section 12(2), when you enter copy dates: “In computing the period of limitation for an appeal or an application for leave to appeal or for revision or for review of a judgment, the day on which the judgment complained of was pronounced and the time requisite for obtaining a copy of the decree, sentence or order appealed from or sought to be revised or reviewed shall be excluded.” Explanation: “In computing under this section the time requisite for obtaining a copy of a decree or an order, any time taken by the court to prepare the decree or order before an application for a copy thereof is made shall not be excluded.”
Section 12(3): “Where a decree or order is appealed from or sought to be revised or reviewed, or where an application is made for leave to appeal from a decree or order, the time requisite for obtaining a copy of the judgment shall also be excluded.” We exclude the time for one copy only, the one you enter.
Section 4: “Where the prescribed period for any suit, appeal or application expires on a day when the court is closed, the suit, appeal or application may be instituted, preferred or made on the day when the court re-opens.” Explanation: “A court shall be deemed to be closed on any day within the meaning of this section if during any part of its normal working hours it remains closed on that day.”
Nothing else: no extension for disability, fraud, acknowledgment or part-payment, and no special or local law's period. Section 5 condonation is described, never computed.

Court holidays: the calendars we hold, each from the court's own published calendar and circulars. Where a court has not published a year's calendar, we say so and do not adjust.

The Act's text: The Legislative Department's updated text of the Act, as amended up to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 (34 of 2019). India Code answered automated requests with HTTP 403, so the text was read from the High Court of Tripura's copy of the same updated text (its footnotes run to Act 34 of 2019). It is to be checked against India Code by hand before launch. Copy read: High Court of Tripura; official home: India Code.

Not legal advice. This is a calculation on the inputs and assumptions shown, not legal advice. The Limitation Act, the rules of the court you file in, and any special law govern; check the date yourself before you rely on it.