Definitions
(1)
“Addition” means the place of residence, and the profession, trade, rank and title (if any) of a person described, and in the case of an Indian, his father's name, or where he is usually described as the son of his mother, then his mother's name;
(2)
“Book” includes a portion of a book and also any number of sheets connected together with a view of forming a book or portion of a book;
(3)
“District” and “sub-district” respectively mean a district and sub-district formed under this Act;
(4)
“District Court” includes the High Court in its ordinary original civil jurisdiction;
(5)
“Endorsement” and “endorsed” include and apply to an entry in writing by a registering officer on a rider or covering slip to any document tendered for registration under this Act;
(6)
“Immovable Property” includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growing crops nor grass; (6A) “India” means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir;
(7)
“Lease” includes a counterpart, kabuliyat, and undertaking to cultivate or occupy, and an agreement to lease;
(8)
“Minor” means a person who, according to the personal law to which he is subject, has not attained majority;
(9)
“Movable Property” includes standing timber, growing crops and grass, fruit upon and juice in trees, and property of every other description, except immovable property; and
(10)
“Representative” includes the guardian of a minor and the committee or other legal curator of a lunatic or idiot.
State amendments (2 · Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh)
These are amendments made by State legislatures to this section as it applies in that State. The central text above remains the base law; verify the current local text against the State gazette.
Uttarakhand[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 2]
(a)
Clause (2) of section 2 shall be substituted as follows; namely:- "(2) ‘book’ includes a portion of a book and also any number of sheets connected together with a view to forming a book, or portion of a book and also includes a book in electronic form;" (b) after clause (10), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:- "(10-A) 'true copy' includes a true Photostat copy; (10-B) the words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Information Technology Act, 2000 shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in that Act."
Uttar Pradesh[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 36 of 2001, s. 2]