"The laws of limitation are a means of ensuring private justice, suppressing fraud and perjury,…
The observation is from Tilokchand Motichand v H.B. Munshi, reported AIR 1970 SC 898. The judgment explains the public interest in finality alongside the protection of…
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"The laws of limitation are a means of ensuring private justice, suppressing fraud and perjury, quickening diligence and preventing oppression." The Supreme Court made this observation in:
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The observation is from Tilokchand Motichand v H.B. Munshi, reported AIR 1970 SC 898. The judgment explains the public interest in finality alongside the protection of private justice by discouraging stale and fraudulent claims and encouraging diligence. Rajender Singh gives the related but different formulation about long enjoyment and rights lost through inaction; the other cases are not the attribution asked for.
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