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84 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001
Title and commencement
s.art002
Interpretation
s.art003
Part II subject to Part IV
s.art004
Time limit: actions founded on contract, etc.
s.art005
Time limit: actions on certain loans
s.art006
Time limit: certain actions founded on tort
s.art007
Time limit: actions for personal injuries
s.art008
Time limit: actions in respect of defective products
s.art008
Time limit: actions in respect of defective premises, etc.
s.art009
Time limit: actions under Fatal Accidents (NI) Order 1977
s.art010
Dependants subject to different time limits
s.art011
Special time limit for negligence actions where facts relevant to cause of action are not known at date of accrual
s.art012
Overriding time limit for negligence actions not involving personal injuries
s.art013
Time limit for recovering contribution
s.art014
Time limit: actions for an account
s.art015
Time limit: actions founded on instruments under seal etc.
s.art016
Time limit: actions upon judgments and for arrears of interest on judgment debts
s.art017
Time limit: successive conversions and extinction of title of owner of converted goods
s.art018
Time limit: theft
s.art019
Savings (Part II)
s.art020
Part III subject to Part IV
s.art021
Time limit: actions to recover present interests in land
s.art022
Time limit: actions to recover future interests in land
s.art023
Cure of defective disentailing assurance
s.art024
Possession of one co‐parcener,
s.art025
Administration relates back to death
s.art026
Extinction of title to land at expiration of time limit
s.art027
Equitable estates in land and land held on trust
s.art028
Actions to recover settled chattels
s.art029
Time limit: rentcharges
s.art030
Time limit: conventional rent
s.art031
Time limit: annuity charged on personal property
s.art032
Time limit: incumbrancers claiming sale of land
s.art033
Extinction of title of mortgagee to mortgaged land at expiration of time limit
s.art034
Time limit: redemption of land
s.art035
Extinction of mortgagor's title at expiration of time limit
s.art036
Time limit: principal money secured by a charge on land or personal property
s.art037
Time limit: interest on mortgage etc.
s.art038
Extinction of right of mortgagee etc. to debt at expiration of time limit for action to recover land etc.
s.art039
Extinction of right of mortgagee etc. to debt secured by mortgage or charge on personal property at expiration of time limit
s.art040
Time limit: certain personal rights in or over land
s.art041
Extinction of personal right in or over land at expiration of time limit
s.art042
Time limit: trustees etc.
s.art043
Exclusion of actions against trustees in cases of fraud or retention of trust property
s.art044
Time limit: personal estate of deceased persons
s.art045
Actions against personal representatives
s.art046
Interpretation (Part IV)
s.art047
Persons under a disability
s.art048
Extension of time limit: disability
s.art049
Extension of time limit (disability): cases under Article 11(3)(b)
s.art050
Court's power to override certain time limits
s.art051
Court's power to override time limit: actions for defamation or malicious falsehood.
s.art051
Extension of time limits: mediation
s.art051
Extension of time limits because of alternative dispute resolution in certain consumer contract disputes
s.art052
Fresh accrual of acknowledged right: actions to recover land
s.art053
Fresh accrual of acknowledged right: action by mortgagee to recover land
s.art054
Fresh accrual of acknowledged right: action by incumbrancer claiming sale of land
s.art055
Effect of acknowledgment: action to redeem mortgaged land in mortgagee's possession
s.art056
Fresh accrual of acknowledged right: action in respect of personal right of support etc. in or over land
s.art057
Fresh accrual of acknowledged right: action to recover debt
s.art058
Fresh accrual of acknowledged right: action claiming personal estate of deceased person
s.art059
Acknowledgments: formalities
s.art060
Acknowledgment: effect on persons other than maker or recipient
s.art061
Exemption of acknowledgment from stamp duty
s.art062
Fresh accrual of right on payment: action by mortgagee to recover land
s.art063
Fresh accrual of right on payment: action by incumbrancer claiming sale of land
s.art064
Effect of payment: action to redeem mortgaged land in mortgagee's possession
s.art065
Fresh accrual of right on payment: action to recover debt
s.art066
Fresh accrual of right on payment: action claiming personal estate of deceased person
s.art067
Payment: formalities
s.art068
Payment: effect on persons other than maker or recipient
s.art069
Appropriation of payment in respect of debts
s.art070
Effect of endorsement of bill of exchange
s.art071
Postponement of time limit: fraud, concealment or mistake
s.art072
Actions for recovery of property obtained through unlawful conduct etc.
s.art072
Actions to prohibit dealing with property subject to an external request
s.art072
Actions for recovery of property for purposes of an external order
s.art072
Actions for exploitation proceeds orders
s.art073
New claims in pending actions
s.art073
Actions relating to the Northern Ireland Troubles
s.art074
Application to the Crown, etc.
s.art075
Savings (general)
s.art076
Transitional provisions, amendments and repeals
s.paragraph/p2
Art. 72 rep. by 1996 c. 23
Schedules
Schedules
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s.sch001
Where the person bringing an action to recover land, or some person through whom he...
s.sch001
Where— (a) any person brings an action to recover any land of a deceased person,...
s.sch001
Where— (a) any person brings an action to recover land, being an estate or interest...
s.sch001
The right of action to recover any land is, where— (a) the estate or interest...
s.sch001
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of this Order— (a) a tenancy from...
s.sch001
(1) Where— (a) any person is in possession of land by virtue of a lease...
s.sch001
(1) A right of action to recover land by virtue of a forfeiture or breach...
s.sch001
(1) No right of action to recover land is to be treated as accruing unless...
s.sch001
Where— (a) any settled land, within the meaning of the Settled Land Acts 1882 to...
s.sch002
Nothing in this Order affects the operation of section 10 of the Statute of Limitations,...
s.sch002
It is hereby declared that a decision taken at any time by a court to...
s.sch002
Notwithstanding anything in Article 59(4) or in the repeals made by this Order, the Statute...
s.sch002
Article 74(2)( c ) is to be treated for the purposes of the Hovercraft Act...
s.sch002
In relation to a lease granted before the commencement of Article 6(3) of the Limitation...
s.sch002
(1) Nothing in this Order affects any right or title, subsisting immediately before the commencement...
s.sch002
(1) Nothing in this Order— (a) enables any action to be brought which was barred...
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