Limitation savings: special or local limitation periods govern and general limitation rules apply only where not excluded. The Limitation Act preserves the Contract Act principle on restraints of legal proceedings and treats any special or local law's prescribed limitation period as the period in the Schedule; the Act's general rules on computation and exclusion of time apply to such special periods only insofar as not expressly excluded by the special or local law. The Act does not apply to suits under marriage and divorce laws except where those laws provide otherwise, and provisions concerning easements do not operate in territories governed by the separate easement enactment.