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Limitation in case of successive conversions and extinction of title of owner of converted goods

Cap. 170, s. 11 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Where any cause of action in respect of the conversion or wrongful detention of a chattel has accrued to any person and, before he recovers possession of the chattel, a further conversion or wrongful detention takes place, no action shall be brought in respect of the further conversion or detention 10 after the expiration of six years from the accrual of the cause of action in respect of the original conversion or detention. (2) Where any such cause of action has accrued to any person and the period prescribed for bringing that action and for bringing any action in respect of such a further conversion or wrongful detention as mentioned in this section has expired and he has not during that period recovered possession of the chattel, the title of that person to the chattel shall be extinguished. land.
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