law: Limitation Act, 1963 
  3. Bar of limitation 
  (1) Subject to the provisions contained in sections 4 to 24
  
  (inclusive) every suit instituted, appeal preferred, and application made after
  
  the prescribed period shall be dismissed although limitation has not been set
  
  up as defense;
  1. For the purposes of this Act,
  1. a suit is
  
  instituted, in an ordinary case, when the plaint is presented to the proper
  
  officer; 
  
  
  2. the case of a
  
  pauper, when his application for leave to sue is a pauper is made; and 
  
  
  3. the case of a claim
  
  against a company which is being wound up by the court, when the claimant first
  
  sends in his claim to the official liquidator; 
  
  
  1. any claim by way of
  
  a set-off or a counter claim, shall be treated as a separate suit and shall be
  
  deemed to have been instituted- 
  
  
  2. in the case of a
  
  set-off, on the dame date as the suit in which the set off is pleaded; 
  
  
  3. in the case a
  
  counter claim, on the date on which the counter claim is made in court; 
  
  
    1. an application by
  
  notice of motion in a High Court is made when the application is presented to
  
  the proper officer of that court;