law: Limitation Act, 1963 
  20. Effect of acknowledgment or payment by
  
  another person - 
  (1) The expression "agent duly Authorized
  
  in this behalf" in sections 18 and 19 shall in the case of a person under
  
  disability, include his lawful guardian, committee or manager or an agent duly Authorized
  
  by such guardian, committee or manager to sign the acknowledgment or make the
  
  payment.
  
  
  (2) Nothing in the said sections renders one of several joint
  
  contractors, partners, executors or mortgagees chargeable by reason only of a
  
  written acknowledgment signed by, or of a payment made by, or by the agent of,
  
  any other or others of them.
  (3) For the purposes of the said sections, - 
  a. an acknowledgment
  
  signed or a payment made in respect of any liability by, or by the duly
  
  Authorized agent of, any limited owner of property who is governed by Hindu
  
  Law, shall be a valid acknowledgment or payment, as the case may be, against a
  
  reversionary succeeding to such liability; and where a liability has been
  
  incurred by, or on behalf of a Hindu undivided family as such, an
  
  acknowledgment or payment made by, or by the duly Authorized agent or, the
  
  manager of the family for the time being shall be deemed to have been made on
  
  behalf of the whole family.