Examples of Limitation Acts in a sentence
It is impossible to read into the modern Limitation Acts any exception for property made waqf for the purposes of a mosque, whether the purpose be merely to provide money for the upkeep and conduct of a mosque or to provide a site and building for the purpose.
It applies to “actions”, defined as non-criminal proceedings in a court of law235 and to arbitrations.236 5.7 Before its enactment, New Zealand limitation law was to be found in the 1623 Act, the Civil Procedure Act 1833, the Crown Suits Act 1769, the Real Property Limitation Acts of 1833, the Crown Suits Act 1759, the Real Property Limitation Act of 1833 and 1874 and in the Judicature Act 1908, the Property Law Act 1908 and the Trustee Act 1908.
In this way the Limitation Act reproduces the provisions of the Limitation Act 1623, the Civil Procedure Act 1833, the Real Property Limitation Acts 1833 and 1874 and a number of other Acts.
Some statutes provide that not only must an action be brought within a stated number of years, but also that notice of the claim must be given to the defendant within a certain time (usually a fairly short 1 The Limitation Acts do not include most criminal proceedings: Attorney General (UK) v Bradlaugh (1885) 14 QBD 667, Brett MR at 687; Johannessen v Miller (1977) 16 SASR 546; Grzybowicz v Smiljanic [1980] 1 NSWLR 627; Meverley v Commane (1987) 47 SASR 162.
It would have been impossible to suggest when th.e Limitation Acts of 1859 and ii7 1 were in force that the shorter period of six years under the residuary clause 16^ section 1 of the Act of 1859 or article 116 of the Act of 1871 was applicable to a suit against a depositary after demand and refusal, No change of legal theory is discernible in the mind of the legislature as regards such a suit in the Act of 1877.