law: Limitation Act, 1963 
  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 before 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 suit 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 any 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 suit or make such
  
  application.
  (3) Nothing in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) applies to
  
  suits to enforce rights of preemption or to suit for the possession of
  
  immovable property or of a hereditary office.