[Rev. 2012]
Limitation of Actions
CAP. 22
This Act may be cited as the Limitation of Actions Act.
2. Interpretation
(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—
“arbitration” means an arbitration on a submission or under a written law;
“assurance” includes conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease, mortgage
and charge and any other disposition of land otherwise than by will or intestacy;
“award” means an award of an arbitrator for the purposes of the Arbitration
Act (Cap. 49) or a foreign award within the meaning of the Arbitration (Foreign
Awards) Act (Cap. 50);
“contract” includes bailment and quasi-contract;
“fraud” includes conduct which, having regard to some special relationship
between the parties concerned, is an unconscionable thing for the one to do
towards the other;
“land” means immovable property or the proceeds of the sale of immovable
property, but not an easement nor a debt secured on immovable property by
mortgage;
“minor” means a person under the age of twenty-one years, other than a
person who is or has been married;
“mortgage” includes charge;
“parent” means father, grandfather, stepfather, mother, grandmother or
stepmother; and any illegitimate or adopted person is for this purpose treated
as the legitimate offspring of his mother and reputed father, or of his adopters,
as the case may be;
“penalty” does not include a fine imposed on the conviction of a person for
a criminal offence;
“personal injuries” includes a disease and the impairment of a person’s
physical or mental condition;
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