law: Registration Act, 1908
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject
  
  or context-
  (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 3[an Indian], 4[***] 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 means 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;
  5[(6A) "India" means the territory of India excluding
  
  the State of Jammu and Kashmir;]
  (7) "lease" includes a counterpart, kabuliyat, an
  
  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.