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The first codified statute dealing with limitation
came to be enacted in 1840. The Act 14 of 1840 in
fact was an enactment applicable in England but it
was extended to the territory of Indian continent
which was under the reign of East India Company,
by an authority of Privy Council in the East India
Company v. Oditchurn Paul, 1849 (Cases in the
Privy Council on Appeal from the East Indies) 43.