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Prescription Act, 1969 (Act No. 68 of 1969)

Chapter IV : General

17. Prescription to be raised in pleadings

 

 

(1) A court shall not of its own motion take notice of prescription.

 

(2) A party to litigation who invokes prescription, shall do so in the relevant document filed of record in the proceedings: Provided that a court may allow prescription to be raised at any stage of the proceedings.