390 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
(unless expressly made inapplicable) and the remaining provisions of the Act shall not apply (unless expressly made applicable by the Special Law).
The Scheme of the Law of Limitation
The Indian Limitation Act consists of 29 Sections and one Schedule.
The Schedule is divided into three Divisions :
First Division —deals with Suits.
Second Division— deals with Appeals.
Third Division —deals with Applications.
- The Schedule in respect of each of its Divisions is cut up into 3 Columns.
Column 1 —Describes the nature of the claim for which suit is brought or of the appeal or if application is made.
Provision is made for 154 different classes of suits.
Provision is made for 9 different classes of appeals.
Provision is made for 26 different classes of applications.
Each of these provisions is numbered seriatum and is called article no. so and so. There are in all 189 articles in the Schedule though the last article is 183, that is, because some articles have the same number and are distinguished by the addition of A to the same number.
Column 2.—Specifies the period within which the suit must be filed, appeal or application must be made.
Column 3. —Specifies the starting-point of the period of limitation within which suit must be filed or appeal or application must be made.
- The Sections of the Act in so far as they deal with the Law of Limitation as distinguished from the law of prescription deal with various questions arising out of the three columns of the Schedule. The Schedule, therefore, is the most important part of the Law of Limitation.