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The Limitation Act, 1963

§10Suits against trustees and their representatives

Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this Act, no suit against a person in whom property has become vested in trust for any specific purpose, or against his legal representatives or assigns (not being assigns for valuable consideration), for the purpose of following in his or their hands such property, or the proceeds thereof, or for an account of such property or proceeds, shall be barred by any length of time. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section any property comprised in a Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist religious or charitable endowment shall be deemed to be property vested in trust for a specific purpose and the manager of the property shall be deemed to be the trustee thereof.

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1565/5/A1963-36.pdf, 353,329 bytes, sha256 1ad1f296…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-30. The same handle also carries a Hindi edition (H1963-36.pdf) — the English 'A'-prefixed file is the one ingested. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded. THE SCHEDULE (the periods-of-limitation table, Articles 1-137) is NOT ingested as sections — it is a tabular schedule, not sectional text; cite it from the official PDF. Spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.

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