law: Court Fees Act, 1850 
  6.Legal disability  .- 
  (1) Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make
  
  application for the execution of a decree is, at the time from which the
  
  prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or insane, or an idiot, he may
  
  institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the disability
  
  has ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time specified  therefor in the third column of the Schedule.
  (2) Where such person is, at the time from which the prescribed
  
  period is to be reckoned, affected by two such disabilities, or where, before
  
  his disability has ceased, he is affected by another disability, he may
  
  institute the suit or make the application within the same period after both
  
  disabilities have ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so
  
  specified.
  (3) Where the disability continues up to the death of that
  
  person, his legal representative may institute the suit or make the application
  
  within the same period after the death, as would otherwise have been allowed
  
  from the time so specified.
  
  
  (4) Where the legal representative referred to in sub-section (3) is, at the
  
  date of the death of the person whom he represents, affected by any such
  
  disability, the rules contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall apply.
  (5) Where a person under disability dies after the disability
  
  ceases but within the period allowed to him under this section, his legal
  
  representative may institute the suit or make the application within the same
  
  period after the death, as would otherwise have been available to that person
  
  had he not died.
  Explanation.--  For the purposes of this section, 'minor'
  
  includes a child in the womb.