{"id":1276,"date":"2025-08-13T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:00:07","slug":"ontario-court-of-appeal-confirms-an-expired-limitation-period-doesnt-extinguish-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: Court of Appeal confirms an expired limitation period doesn&#8217;t extinguish debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/jz276\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tega Homes (Attika) Inc. v. Spencedale Properties<\/em><\/a>, the Court of Appeal makes the point that the expiry of a limitation period for an action to recover a debt doesn\u2019t extinguish the debt, but the right to enforce it:<\/p>\n<p data-viibes-parag=\"52\" data-viibes-start=\"51\" data-viibes-end=\"50\">\n<p data-viibes-parag=\"52\" data-viibes-start=\"51\" data-viibes-end=\"50\">\n<blockquote>\n<p data-viibes-parag=\"52\" data-viibes-start=\"51\" data-viibes-end=\"50\">[52]\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[&#8230;] I do not accept the appellants\u2019 submission that the passing of the applicable limitation period necessarily means those debts are no longer payable. The passing of any limitation period does not extinguish those debts but may affect the service providers\u2019 ability to enforce them if they have not been acknowledged by the respondent [&#8230;].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tega Homes (Attika) Inc. v. Spencedale Properties, the Court of Appeal makes the point that the expiry of a limitation period for an action to recover a debt doesn\u2019t extinguish the debt, but the right to enforce it: [52]\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[&#8230;] I do not accept the appellants\u2019 submission that the passing of the applicable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: Court of Appeal confirms an expired limitation period doesn&#8217;t extinguish debt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[481,548,651,43],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-debts","tag-effect-of-an-expired-limitation-period","tag-no-one-likes-the-debt-collector","tag-ontario-court-of-appeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}