law: Bankers Book Evidence Act, 1891
  2. Definitions -
  In this Act, unless there is something
  
  repugnant in the subject or context,-
  [(1) "company" means any company as
  
  defined in Section 3 of the Companies Act ,1956 , and
  
  includes a foreign company within the meaning of Section 591 of that Act;
  (1A)
  
  "corporation" means any body corporate established by any law for the
  
  time being in force in India and includes the
  
  Reserve Bank of  India , the State Bank of India and any subsidiary
  
  bank as defined in the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks)
  
  Act, 1959.]
  (2) " bank "
  
  and "bakes", mean-
  [( a )
  
  any company or corporation carrying on the business of banking.]
  (b) any 
  
  partnership of individual to whose books the provisions of this Act shall have
  
  been extended as hereinafter provided,
  [(c) any post office savings bank or money order office;]
  (3) " bankers '
  
  books" include ledgers, day-books, cash-books, account-books and all other
  
  books used in the ordinary business of a bank;
  (4) " legal 
  
  proceeding" means any proceeding or inquiry in which evidence is or may be
  
  given, and includes an arbitration;
  (5) " the 
  
  Court" means the person or persons before whom a legal proceeding is held
  
  or taken;
  (6) "Judge" means a Judge of a High
  
  Court;
  1. " trail " means any hearing before the Court at which
  
  evidence is taken; and
  2. "certified copy" 
  
  means a copy of any entry in the books of a bank together with certificate 
  
  written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such entry, that such 
  
  entry is contained in one of the ordinary books of the bank and was made in the 
  
  usual and ordinary course of business, and that such book is still in the 
  
  custody of the bank, such certificate being dated and subscribed by the 
  
  principal accountant or manager of the bank with his name and official title.