law: Court Fees Act, 1850 
  16.Effect of death on or before the accrual of the right
  
  to sue .-
  
  (1) Where a person who would, if he were living, have a right to
  
  institute a suit or make an application dies the right accrues, or where a
  
  right to institute a suit or make an application accrues only on the death of a
  
  person, the period of limitation shall be computed from the time when there is
  
  a legal representative of the deceased capable of instituting such or making
  
  such application.
  (2) Where a person against whom, if he were living, a right to
  
  institute a suit or make an application would have accrued dies before the
  
  right accrues, or where a right to institute a suit or make an application
  
  against by person accrues on the death of such person, the period of limitation
  
  shall be computed from the time when there is a legal representative of the
  
  deceased against whom the plaintiff may institute such or make such
  
  application.
  (3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) applies to suits
  
  to enforce rights of pre-emption or to suits for the possession of immovable
  
  property or of a hereditary office.