law: Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
  
  2.Definitions.-
  In this Act, unless there is anything
  
  repugnant in the subject or context,-
  (1) " Code " includes rules:
  (2) " decree " means the formal expression of an adjudication which,
  
  so far as regards the Court expressing it, conclusively determines the rights
  
  of the parties with regard to all or any of the matters in controversy in the
  
  suit and may be either preliminary or final. It shall be deemed to include
  
  the rejection of a plaint and the determination of any question within section
  
  47  or section 144, but shall not include-
  (a) any adjudication
  
  from which an appeal lies as an appeal from an order, or
  (b) any order of dismissal for default.
  Explanation.- A decree is
  
  preliminary when further proceedings have to be taken before the suit can be completely
  
  disposed of. It is final when such adjudication completely disposes of the
  
  suit. It may be partly preliminary and partly final:
  (3) " decree-holder" means any person in whose favor a decree has
  
  been passed or an order capable of execution has been made:
  (4) "district" means the local limits of the jurisdiction of a
  
  principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction (hereinafter called a
  
  "District Court "), and includes the local limits of the ordinary
  
  original civil jurisdiction of a High Court:
  {Subs. by Act 2 of 1951, s.4.} [(5) "foreign Court" means a Court
  
  situate outside India and rot established or continued by the authority of the
  
  Central Government: ]
  (6) " foreign judgment " means the judgment of a foreign Court:
  (7) "Government Pleader" includes any officer appointed by the State
  
  Government to perform all or any of the functions expressly imposed by this
  
  Code on the Government Pleader and also any pleader acting under the directions
  
  of the Government Pleader:
  {Ins.by s.4, ibid.} [(7A) " High Court ", in relation to the Andaman
  
  and Nicobar Islands, means the High Court in Calcutta:
  (7B) "India", except in sections 1, 29, 43, 44, {Ins.by Act 42 of
  
  1953, s.4 and Sch.III.} [44A,] 78, 79, 32, 83 and 87A, means the territory of
  
  India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir: ]
  (8) "Judge" means the presiding officer of a Civil Court:
  
  (9) " judgment " means the statement given by the Judge of the
  
  grounds of a decree or order:
  (10) " judgment-debtor " means any person against whom a decree has
  
  been passed or an order capable of execution has been made:
  (11) " legal representative " means a person who in law represents
  
  the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with
  
  the estate of the deceased and where a party sues or is sued in a
  
  representative character the person on whom the estate devolves on the death of
  
  the party so suing or sued :
  (12) " mesne profits " of property means those profits which the
  
  person in wrongful possession of such property actually received or might with
  
  ordinary diligence have received there from, together with interest on such
  
  profits, but shall not include profits due to improvements made by the person
  
  in wrongful possession:
  (13) "movable property" includes growing crops:
  (14) " order " means the formal expression of any decision of a Civil
  
  Court which is not a decree:
  (15) "pleader" means any person entitled to appear and plead for
  
  another in Court, and includes an advocate, a vakil and an attorney of a High
  
  Court:
  (16) " prescribed " means prescribed by rules:
  (17) " public officer " means a person falling under any of the
  
  following descriptions, namely:-
  (a) every Judge;
  (b) every member of the Indian Civil Service;
  (c) every commissioned or gazetted officer in the military {Subs. by Act 35 of
  
  1934, s.2 and Sch., for " or naval ".} [naval or air] forces of
  
  {Subs. by the A.O.1950 for "His Majesty".} [the Union] {The words
  
  " including His Majesty's Indian Marine Service " rep.by Act 35 of
  
  1934, s.2.} while serving under the Government;
  (d) every officer of a Court of Justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to
  
  investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate or
  
  keep any document, or to take charge or dispose of any property, or to execute
  
  any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to
  
  preserve order, in the Court, and every person especially authorized by a Court
  
  of Justice to perform any of such duties;
  (e) every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to
  
  place or keep any person in confinement;
  (f) every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to
  
  prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring offenders to
  
  justice, or to protect the public health, safety or convenience;
  (g) every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or
  
  expend any property on behalf of the Government, or to make any survey,
  
  assessment or contract on behalf of the Government, or to execute any
  
  revenue-process, or to investigate, or to report on, any matter affecting the
  
  pecuniary interests of the Government or to make, authenticate or keep any
  
  document relating to the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to prevent
  
  the infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests of the
  
  Government; and
  (h) every officer in the service or pay of the Government, or remunerated by
  
  fees or commission for the performance of any public duty:
   (18) " rules " means rules and forms
  
  contained in the First Schedule or made under section 122 or section 125:
   (19) " share in a corporation "
  
  shall be deemed to include stock, debenture stock, debentures or bonds: and
  (20) " signed ", save in the case of a judgment or decree, includes
  
  stamped.
  {Cl.(21) which was ins.by the A.O.1950, rep.by Act 2 of 1951, s.4.}