1934 (11) TMI 12

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.... handwriting. Unfortunately, he has not recorded a finding on the question whether or not there was a part-payment as mentioned in the endorsement; the judgment proceeds. I take it, upon the assumption that there was such a part-payment. The prevailing view of the law was, that a part-payment to be effectual under Section 20 of the Indian Limitation Act, must be in the case of a literate person ap....

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....n, but there is no provision in the Act so retrospective in its effect as to revive and make effective a barred right. See the observations of the Judicial Committee in Sachindranath Roy v. Maharaj Bahadur Singh (1921) L.R. 48 I.A. 335 : I.L.R. 49 Cal. 203 at 214. 3. Section 20 has been amended by Act I of 1927, which came into force from 1st January, 1928, and long before that date the plainti....