My university cancelled swim tests a few years ago to not make people who can ' t swim feel bad or some similarly stupid reason . edit my uni is near a very large body of water <| sep |> I found myself on the wrong side of a minotaur ' s horns . I gave that kid time to get out , though . <| sep |> If a partial payment was made in October 2010 , that ' s when the limitation period started to run . There ' s lots of case law on that payments , even partial payments , reset the clock . CanLii is your friend . Limitation period represent the period in which a claim must be filed . There is an additional year to serve under both the supreme court civil rules and the small claims rules you don ' t say which explicitly which court applies here , but Notice of Claim is the terminology used in small claims court so I ' m going to assume that . So its the filing date that matters here , not the service date , if you are trying to make a timeliness argument .