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Section 20: Limitation of actions claiming personal estate of deceased person

Limitation Act · Uganda

Provision: Section 20 Consolidation: 2023-12-31 Currency check: 2026-08-04 2000 Revised Edition: Cap. 80 2023 Revised Edition: Cap. 290

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Section 20 of Uganda’s Limitation Act is the governing provision headed “Limitation of actions claiming personal estate of deceased person”. This page reproduces the available consolidated text dated 2023-12-31. Read the official text below for every qualification and exception. The judgments listed here are verified as citing the section; Wakilii does not infer their treatment. Displayed consolidation dated 2023-12-31; matched to ULII's latest reliably enumerated expression on 2026-08-04. Read the exact consolidated text or go to verified citing cases.

Last reviewed 2026-08-17.

Verified Current. Displayed consolidation dated 2023-12-31; matched to ULII's latest reliably enumerated expression on 2026-08-04. This is not a claim about commencement or current legal force.

Official statutory text

Section 20 — Limitation of actions claiming personal estate of deceased person

Subject to section 19(1), no action in respect of any claim to the personal estate of a deceased person or to any share or interest in such estate, whether under a will or on intestacy, shall be brought after the expiration of twelve years from the date when the right to receive the share or interest accrued, and no action to recover arrears of interest in respect of any legacy or damages in respect of those arrears shall be brought after the expiration of six years from the date on which the interest became due

Public-domain Ugandan legislation reproduced from a consolidation sourced through ULII and Laws.Africa. Displayed expression: 2023-12-31. View this provision in the full Act.

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