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3. Learned Counsel for the parties cited before us case law bred in various High Courts of the country on the subject of procedural law under the Civil Procedure Code as to whether a suit filed against a dead person is non-est and whether that dead person impleaded could be substituted by his heirs and legal representatives or be added as parties to the suit. Having heard them and having pondered over the matter, we are of the opinion that those questions do not seriously arise, when we see the sweep of the relevant provision under the Act, governing the subject, unamended and amended. That provision under the Indian Limitation Act, 1908, was Section 22 which read as follows : -