The Limitation Act, 1963 sets the clock based on Gregorian calendar

Hi Everyone …. ...

Many of us must have heard about the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. Most of us would also know that we and world at large use the Gregorian, a calendar which was introduced by Pope Gregory III in 1582. This calendar superseded the erstwhile Julian calendar as it was found that Julian calendar is not addressing the aspects of 'Earth's revolution' and 'Years' calculation accurately. So the Gregorian calendar was introduced which then rectified the error.

But ..... how many of us would know that because of the shift from Julian calendar to Gregorian calendar, the world lost around '11 days'. As result of this shift or modification, the day that fell post 04th October, 1582 was 15th October, 1582 and not 05th October, 1582. The Gregorian calendar had reset the time in its process to rectify the error of the previous long standing Julian calendar. Under the Gregorian calendar, a leap year was considered to be the one that could be exactly divisible by 4 except for any of those years which could be exactly divisible by 100. However and further to note that such of the centurial years would still be a leap year if they could be exactly divisible by 400. Thus, the year 1900 was not a leap year but year 2000 was a leap year. 

Now, the other point is as to why all of a sudden I, being an Advocate or a Lawyer, am talking "History" here, instead of Law or Law Practice or law aspirants, etc. So what happened today was that I was going through a judgement of our Hon'ble Supreme Court of India on the aspect Limitation law and continuing breaches, which refers to Ss. 22-23 of the Limitation Act. This judgement is by Justice D. Y. Chandrachud (one of the favourite Judges of many of us lawyer). Whilst reading that judgement and Act, I somehow moved on to read Sec. 24 as well, and I then noticed that Sec. 24 sets the Gregorian calendar as benchmark for all causes. This means that whenever we put on a date to some instrument or document etc., it will be presumed that the date is what is referred to in the Gregorian calendar. So after reading this section I did a bit of research on “Gregorian calendar” and came across this interesting point. You may also read about at the link given below.


Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

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