Limitation Act 1959 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2
9. Limitation of actions to recover land
Feedback & supportNo action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of 12 years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him, or, if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims, to that person.
Nothing in this section or in section 11(2) shall be deemed to affect the provisions of the Government Proceedings Act 1956, or to apply to any person registered under or by virtue of the provisions of the Land Titles Act 1993 as the proprietor of the land sought to be recovered, or to any person claiming through a person so registered, except to the extent that such Act so provides or permits.
land
“land” includes things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth, rentcharges and any legal or equitable estate or interest in land (including an interest in the proceeds of the sale of land held upon trust for sale) but does not include any right of way, easement, servitude, profit over or in respect of land, or right in the nature of an easement, servitude or profit over or in respect of land, or any other incorporeal hereditament;
This section shall not apply to an action to recover land from a person by reason only of his unauthorised occupation of the land.