## How the limitation period applies

The controlling primary authority for IN ucc sale of goods SOL (Limitation Act, 1963 (Act No. 36 of 1963) Schedule, Part II, Art. 14 — For the price of goods sold and delivered) is **Limitation Act, 1963 (Act No. 36 of 1963) Schedule, Part II, Art. 14 — For the price of goods sold and delivered**.

> **Limitation Act, 1963 (Act No. 36 of 1963) Schedule, Part II, Art. 14 — For the price of goods sold and delivered.** 14. For the price of goods sold and delivered where no fixed period of credit is agreed upon. Three years. The date of the delivery of the goods.

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- [Limitation Act, 1963 (Act No. 36 of 1963) Schedule, Part II, Art. 14 — For the price of goods sold and delivered — Limitation Act, 1963 (Act No. 36 of 1963) Schedule, Part II, Art. 14 — For the price of goods sold and delivered](https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1565/5/A1963-36.pdf)

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In India, the “statute of limitations” for commercial claims tied to sale of goods is typically governed by the Limitation Act, 1963 (not by the UCC...

Statute of Limitations for UCC / Sale of Goods in India

ANO-831 verification 2026-04-26: primary source = official Indiacode PDF of Act 36 of 1963.

17. Effect of fraud or mistake.—(1) Where, in the case of any suit or application for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act,— (a) the suit or application is based upon the fraud of the defendant or respondent or his agent; or (b) the knowledge of the right or title on which a suit or application is founded is concealed by the fraud of any such person as aforesaid; or (c) the suit or application is for relief from the consequences of a mistake; or (d) where any document necessary to establish the right of the plaintiff or applicant has been fraudulently concealed from him; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff or applicant has discovered the fraud or the mistake or could, with reasonable diligence, have discovered it, or in the case of a concealed document, until the plaintiff or the applicant first had the means of producing the concealed document or compelling its production.

Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or insane, or an idiot, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the disability has ceased.

Where once time has begun to run, no subsequent disability or inability to institute a suit or make an application stops it: Provided that, where letters of administration to the estate of a creditor have been granted to his debtor, the running of the period of limitation for a suit to recover the debt shall be suspended while the administration continues.

For compensation for the breach of any contract, express or implied not herein specially provided for.

(1) In computing the period of limitation of any suit or application for the execution of a decree, the institution or execution of which has been stayed by injunction or order, the time of the continuance of the injunction or order, the day on which it was issued or made, and the day on which it was withdrawn, shall be excluded.

For compensation for a malicious prosecution.

Any suit for which no period of limitation is provided elsewhere in this Schedule.

For compensation,— (a)for wrongfully taking or detaining Three years. When the person having the right to the any specific movable possession of the property first learns property lost, oracquired by theft, in whose possession it is. or dishonest misappropriation, or conversion; (b) for wrongfully taking or injuring Three years. When the property is wrongfully taken or or wrongfully detaining any other injured, or when the detainer’s specific movable property. possession becomes unlawful.

For possession of immovable property or any interest therein based on title.

For compensation for slander. One year. When the words are spoken, or, if the words are not actionable in themselves, when the special damage complained of results.

For compensation for trespass upon immovable property.

3. Bar of limitation.—(1) Subject to the provisions contained in sections 4 to 24 (inclusive), every suit instituted, appeal preferred, and application made after the prescribed period shall be dismissed, although limitation has not been set up as a defence.

In India, a suit for the price of goods sold and delivered (where no fixed credit period was agreed) must be instituted within 3 years from the date of delivery, per Article 14 of the Schedule to the Limitation Act, 1963 (Act 36 of 1963).

65. For possession of immovable property or any interest therein based on title. ... Twelve years. When the possession of the defendant becomes adverse to the plaintiff.

For the execution of any decree (other than a decree granting a mandatory injunction) or order of any civil court.

Any appeal or any application, other than an application under any of the provisions of Order XXI of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, may be admitted after the prescribed period if the appellant or the applicant satisfies the court that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal or making the application within such period.

9. Continuous running of time.—Where once time has begun to run, no subsequent disability or inability to institute a suit or make an application stops it: Provided that, where letters of administration to the estate of a creditor have been granted to his debtor, the running of the period of limitation for a suit to recover the debt shall be suspended while the administration continues.

Where, in the case of any suit or application for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act,— ... (b) the knowledge of the right or title on which a suit or application is founded is concealed by the fraud of any such person as aforesaid; or ... (d) where any document necessary to establish the right of the plaintiff or applicant has been fraudulently concealed from him, 7 the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff or applicant has discovered the fraud or the mistake or could, with reasonable diligence, have discovered it;

6. Legal disability.—(1) Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or insane, or an idiot, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the disability has ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time specified there for in the third column of the Schedule. (2) Where such person is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, affected by two such disabilities, or where, before his disability has ceased, he is affected by another disability, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after both disabilities have ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so specified.

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