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Section 5: Limitation of actions to recover land

Limitation Act · Uganda

Provision: Section 5 Consolidation: 2023-12-31 Currency check: 2026-08-04 2000 Revised Edition: Cap. 80 2023 Revised Edition: Cap. 290

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Section 5 of Uganda’s Limitation Act is the governing provision headed “Limitation of actions to recover land”. 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 5 — Limitation of actions to recover land

No action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or her or, if it first accrued to some person through whom he or she claims, to that person

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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293 citing judgments are recorded; this page shows the first 5.

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