law: Court Fees Act, 1850 
  2.Definitions  .- 
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
  (a) "applicant" includes-
  ( i ) a petitioner;
  (ii) any person from or through whom an applicant
  
  derives his right to apply;
  (iii) any person whose estate is represented
  
  by the applicant as executor, administrator or other representative;
  (b) "application" includes a petition;
  (c) "bill of exchange" includes a  hundi and a cheque ;
  (d) "bond" includes any instrument whereby a
  
  person obliges himself to pay money to another, on condition that the
  
  obligation shall be void if a specified act is performed, or is not performed,
  
  as the case may be;
  (e) "defendant" includes—
  ( i ) any person from
  
  or through whom a defendant derives his liability to be sued;
  (ii) any person whose estate is represented by
  
  the defendant as executor, administrator or other representative;
  (f) "easement" includes a right not arising
  
  from contract, by which one person is entitled to remove and appropriate for
  
  his own profit any part of the soil belonging to another or anything growing
  
  in, or attached to, or subsisting upon, the land of another;
  (g) " foreign  country"
  
  means any country other than India ;
  (h) " good  faith"--nothing
  
  shall be deemed to be done in good faith which is not done with due care and
  
  attention;
  (I) "plaintiff" includes—
  ( i ) any person from
  
  or through whom a plaintiff derives his right to sue;
  (ii) any person whose estate is represented by
  
  the plaintiff as executor, administrator or other representative;
  (j) "period of limitation"
  
  means the period of limitation prescribed for any suit, appeal or application
  
  by the Schedule, and "prescribed period" means the period of
  
  limitation computed in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
  (k) "promissory note" means
  
  any instrument whereby the maker engages absolutely to pay a specified sum of
  
  money to another at a time therein limited, or on deemed, or at sight;
  (l) "suit" does not include
  
  an appeal or an application;
  (m) "tort" means a civil
  
  wrong which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a
  
  trust;
  (n) "trustee" does not
  
  include a benamidar , a mortgage remaining in
  
  possession after the mortgage has been satisfied or a person in wrongful
  
  possession without title.