https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272884 The Estates Land Act's three-year limitation period was not applied retrospectively to defeat a rent suit where the earlier limitation period had already expired before the Act commenced. The Court applied the principle that limitation is ordinarily governed by the law in force when suit is instituted, but a statute will not be read as extinguishing an accrued vested right unless that result is clearly expressed or necessarily implied. Because retrospective operation would have destroyed the landholder's existing cause of action, the general limitation rule under the prior law continued to govern. The suit was therefore not barred by limitation, and the lower courts' decree could not be sustained. en-us Wed, 04 Dec 1912 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 22 May 2018 18:30:07 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272884 The Estates Land Act's three-year limitation period was not applied retrospectively to defeat a rent suit where the earlier limitation period had already expired before the Act commenced. The Court applied the principle that limitation is ordinarily governed by the law in force when suit is instituted, but a statute will not be read as extinguishing an accrued vested right unless that result is clearly expressed or necessarily implied. Because retrospective operation would have destroyed the landholder's existing cause of action, the general limitation rule under the prior law continued to govern. The suit was therefore not barred by limitation, and the lower courts' decree could not be sustained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 04 Dec 1912 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272884