law: Advocates Act, 1961
  2. Definitions -
  (1)  (Note: - Section 2 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof
  
  by Act 60 of 1973, sec.2 (w.e.f. 31/07/1974)  in this Act, unless the
  
  context otherwise requires- 
  a. "advocate" means an advocate
  
  entered in any roll under the provisions of this Act.
  b. "appointed day" in relation
  
  to any provision of this Act, means the day on which that provision comes into
  
  force.
    c.  (Note:
  
  - Clause (C) omitted by Act 107 of 1976, section 2)  
  d. "Bar council" mean a Bar Council
  
  constituted under this Act.
  e. "Bar Council of India" mean
  
  the Bar Council constituted under Section 4 for the territories to which this
  
  Act extends.
    f.  (Note:
  
  - Clause (f) omitted by Act 60 of 1973, sec.3)  
  g. "High Court" except in sub
  
  section (1)  (Note:- Ins. by Act 60 of 1973, sec.3)  and sub section (1A)
  
  of section 34 and in section 42 and 43 does not include a court of the Judicial
  
  Commissioner, and, in relation to a State Bar Council, means.
  (i) in the case of a Bar Council constituted
  
  for a State or for a State and one or more Union territories, the High Court
  
  for the State.
  (ii) in the case of the Bar council
  
  constituted for Delhi [ (Note: - Subs. by Act 60 of 1973, sec.3)  the High
  
  Court of Delhi].
  h. "Law graduate” means a person who
  
  has obtained a bachelor’s degree in law from any university established by law
  
  in India.
  i. "Legal practitioner"
  
  means an advocate  (Note: - Subs. by Act No.107 of 1976, sec.2)  (or
  
  vakil) of any High court, a pleader, mukhtar or revenue agent.
   
  
  j. "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under
  
  this Act.
  k.”roll" means a roll of advocates prepared
  
  and maintained under this Act,
  l. "State" does not
  
  include a Union territory
  m. "State Bar Council" means a Bar
  
  council constituted under section 3
  n. "State roll" mean roll of
  
  advocates prepared and maintained by a State Bar Council under Section 17.
  (2)  (Note:- Ins. by Act 60 of 1973, sec.2, Goa is now a
  
  state, see Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganization Act,1987 (18 of 1987) sec.3
  
  (w.e.f. 30/05/1987)  Any reference in this Act to a law which is not in
  
  force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir or in the Union territory of Goa, Daman
  
  and Diu, shall in relation to that State or that territory, be construed as a
  
  reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that State or that
  
  territory , as the case may be.)