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StatuteLimitation Act 1980

Section 26 — Limitation Act 1980: Administration to date back to death.

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Administration to date back to death.

26 For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to actions for the recovery of land and advowsons an administrator of the estate of a deceased person shall be treated as claiming as if there had been no interval of time between the death of the deceased person and the grant of the letters of administration.

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