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…He ruled that Order VI A rule 3{5) does not permit an amendment to be made to cure a defective cause of action when the statute of Limitations would have barred the claim.…

…In my judgment if I were to allow at this late stage the proposed amendments, the defendant would be deprived of its undoubted right to plead limitation.…

…having considered Mr Juma’s argument, and particularly grounds 5 an 6 of the proposed memorandum of appeal which state: “It was wrong in principle to have set aside the dismissal when a fresh action was already barred by limitation…

…, and the policy of the Courts, being to strike out the original suit and not to allow it to proceed (and a portion to be reopened ) after limitation has expired.…

…Although Section 3(2) of the Magistrate’s Court Act confers countrywide jurisdiction to a resident magistrate’s court, in civil cases such jurisdiction is exercised subject to the limitation to the said court’s jurisdiction…

…I make no orders as to costs as the advocate is at liberty subject to the statute of limitation, to le before the High Court, his bill of costs for taxation by the taxing ocer or master as stipulated in law. 32.…

…Although there was a restriction or limitation as to whose goods would be carried, the fact that as at the time the vehicle was stolen it was carrying goods against that restriction could not, in my view, of itself without…

…L.R. 214/275, Nairobi, (the suit property) pending the disposal of the originating summons brought under section 38 of the Limitation of Actions Act Cap 22 Laws of Kenya.…

…In Hyde and Another v Johnson 1836 2 Bine, No 776, the plainti in order to recover a debt barred by the Statute of Limitation, oered in evidence at the trial before the under sheri, a letter written by the defendant’s…

…I was held in this case that: “an acknowledgment signed by the agent of the debtor, will not retrieve a debt barred by the Statute of Limitation; it must be signed by the debtor himself.” 24.…

…A limitation may be either as to the kind and nature of the actions and matters of which the particular court has cognisance, or as to the area over which the jurisdiction shall extend, or it may partake of both these characteristics…