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…TIME BAR Limitation is a different matter.…

…Platt J said that the law of limitation is procedure law governed by the lex fori, apart from the law of prescription. So it is.…

…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.…

…Her advocates had told her, and she believed them, that because she had been there for more than 12 years against the will of Rucathi his title to this land had been extinguished under Section 17 of the Limitation of Actions…

…And if this was the case, then this suit would have been filed in court by way of plaint - within 12 years of the making of such agreement - see Section 7 of the Limitation of Actions Act.…

…Court-martial) in respect of any offence alleged to have been committed by that person, or to discontinue any such criminal proceedings as stated in subparagraph (c) is exclusively lodged in the AttorneyGeneral without any limitation…

…There is no time limit to the prosecution of serious offences except where a limitation is imposed by statute. There is no such statutory limitation imposed in respect of the four charges.…

…Court-martial) in respect of any offence alleged to have been committed by that person, or to discontinue any such criminal proceedings as stated in subparagraph (c) is exclusively lodged in the AttorneyGeneral without any limitation…

…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.…

…As against that there are ordinary interlocutory orders on such matters as misjoinder, jurisdiction, limitation and so forth.…

…called on for hearing outside the court, the court may dismiss the suit, and, in that event, either party may apply under rule 8 to have the dismissal set aside or the plaintiff may bring a fresh suit subject to any law of limitation…

…She then went in adverse possession of the land from then till 1975 when her husband’s title was extinguished and she became entitled to the suit premises by virtue of section 38(1) of the Limitation of Actions (cap 22).…

…Mucheru Karanja as its sole proprietor, under the Registered Land Act, Francis Mucheru could still claim title to a portion of it as being held in trust for him by Mucheru Karanja, or through adverse possession under the Limitation…

…of Re An Application by Gideon Waweru Gathunguri [1962] EA 520 was cited and stress was laid on the principle of law that rules of court could not defeat the clear provision of section 20 which set the absolute period of limitation…

…It is also the petitioner’s case that section 43 of the KCIA is inconsistent with Articles 24(2)(a) of the Constitution hence null and void to the extent that it did not set out the nature and extent of the limitation as…

…From the above it is clear that the defendant could also succeed under prescription although there is no limitation as at what stage of time a trust can be declared.…

…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.…

…The learned Judges did not also address themselves to the fact that the section did not appear to intend limitation to the operation of the Constitution in ensuring that all grievances are redressed and not merely glossed…