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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-northern-ireland-order-1989/article-46",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1989/1339",
  "legislation_title": "The Limitation (Northern Ireland) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/limitation-northern-ireland-order-1989",
  "path": "article/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Interpretation (Part IV)",
  "text": "In this Part—\n(a) “debt” includes any liquidated pecuniary claim;\n“statute‐barred debt” means a debt in respect of which the time limit fixed by this Order for the bringing of an action to recover it has expired;\n“successor” means—\n(i)as respects a mortgagee, his personal representatives and any other person on whom the rights under the mortgage devolve, whether—\n(A) on death or bankruptcy;\n(B) on the disposition of the property; or\n(C) on the determination of a limited estate or interest in settled property;\nor otherwise;\n(ii)as respects a person liable in respect of a debt, his personal representatives and any other person on whom the liability in respect of the debt devolves, whether—\n(A) on death or bankruptcy;\n(B) on the disposition of the property; or\n(C) on the determination of a limited estate or interest in settled property;\nor otherwise;\n(b) references to a right of action include—\n(i) a cause of action;\n(ii) a right to receive money secured by a mortgage or charge on any property or to receive proceeds of the sale of land;\n(iii) a right to receive a share or interest in the personal estate of a deceased person;\n(c) references to the date of the accrual of a right of action refer—\n(i) as respects an action upon a judgment, to the date on which the judgment became enforceable;\n(ii) as respects an action to recover arrears of a rentcharge, a conventional rent, or interest or damages in respect thereof, to the date on which the arrears became due;\n(d) references to a person in possession of land include—\n(i) as respects a rentcharge, a person who is in possession of the land charged, but does not pay the rentcharge; and\n(ii) as respects land (including a rentcharge) held under a lease in writing reserving a yearly conventional rent of not less than £1, a person who, wrongfully claiming to be entitled to the land in reversion immediately expectant on the determination of the lease, is in receipt of the conventional rent;\n(e) references to a debt refer—\n(i) as respects a rentcharge or a conventional rent, to a gale of the rentcharge or of the conventional rent;\n(ii) as respects interest, to an instalment of the interest;\n(f) references to a mortgagee who is by virtue of the mortgage in possession of any mortgaged land include references to a mortgagee who has obtained possession of the mortgaged land by virtue of an order of a court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/1339/article/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:16.661495+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}