ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the principle of limitation of actions, whereby the right to a legal remedy, such as a claim for money due under a contract or for damages for its breach, is extinguished by the passage of time. Limitation is regarded as adjective law, as distinguished from substantive law. The chapter focuses on what kinds of demands are likely to be raised in building and engineering contracts and what is a period of limitation in relation to each of them as per the Indian Limitation Act, 1963. It discusses the relevant provisions of the Indian Limitation Act and the illustrative cases. The relevant provisions of the Indian Limitation Act 1963 include: recovery of cost of materials to be used in works, recovery of cost of work done, deductions made in RA bills, and recovery of cost of extra work.
