law: Indian Christian Marriage Act,1872 
  3. Interpretation-clause
  In this Act unless there
  
  is something repugnant in the subject or context,-
  "Church of
  
  England" and "Anglican" mean and apply to the Church of England
  
  as by law established;
  "Church of
  
  Scotland" means the Church of Scotland as by law established;
  "Church of
  
  Rome" and" "Roman Catholic" means and apply to the Church
  
  which regards the Pope of Rome as its spiritual head;
  "Church"
  
  includes any chapel or other building generally used for public Christian
  
  worship;
    
   6  ["India"
  
  means the 7[territories} to which this Act extends;]
  "minor"
  
  means a person who has not completed the age of twenty-one years and who is not
  
  a widower or a window;
    
   8  [***] 
  the expression
  
  "Christians" means persons professing the Christian religion;
    
   9  [and the expression
  
  "Indian Christians" includes the Christian descendants of natives of
  
  India converted to Christianity, as well as such converts;]
    
   10  ["Registrar
  
  General of Births, Deaths and Marriages" means a Registrar General of
  
  Births, Deaths and Marriages appointed under the Births, Deaths and Marriages
  
  Registration Act, 1886.]