Section 33 of Limitation of Actions Act CAP 22: Where servient tenement held for limited interest or leased
Where any land upon, over or from which any easement has been enjoyed or derived has been held for or by virtue of an interest for life or a term of years exceeding three years, the time while the easement is enjoyed during the continuance of the interest or term is excluded in the computation of the period of twenty years if the claim is, within three years next after the determination of the interest or term, resisted by the person entitled on such determination to the land.
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(b) that the person attempting to plead limitation is estopped from so doing.
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(a) enable a person to acquire any title to, or any easement over—
(i) Government land or land otherwise enjoyed by the
Government;
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(b) matrimonial proceedings; or
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Subject to—
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