law: Limitation Act, 1963 
  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; 
  
  
    a.
  
  "application" includes a petitions;
  
  
    b. "bill of
  
  exchange" includes a hundi and a cheque;
  
  
  c. "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;
  
  
    d.
  
  "defendant" includes
  
  
    1. any person from or through
  
  whom a defendant derives his liability to be sued; 
  
  
    2. any person whose
  
  estate is represented by the defendant as executor, administrator or other
  
  representative; 
  
  
    a.
  
  "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;
  
  
    b. "foreign
  
  country'" means any country other than India;
  
  
    c. "good
  
  faith" nothing shall be deemed to be done in good faith which is not done
  
  with due care and attention;
  
  
   d.
  
  "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 time therein limited, or on demand, 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 trust;
  
  
  n. "trustee" does not include a
  
  benamidar, a mortgagee remaining in possession after the mortgage has been
  
  satisfied, or a person in a wrongful possession without title.