Vidhara

The Registration Act, 1908

§2Definitions

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (1) “Addition” means the place of residence, and the profession, trade, rank and title (if any) of a person described, and in the case of [an Indian], *** his father's name, or where he is usually described as the son of his mother, then his mother's name; (2) “Book” includes a portion of a book and also any number of sheets connected together with a view of forming a book or portion of a book; (3) “District” and “sub-district” respectively mean a district and sub-district formed under this Act; (4) “District Court” includes the High Court in its ordinary original civil jurisdiction; 1. 2. The word “Indian” omitted by Act 45 of 1969, s. 2. (5) “Endorsement” and “endorsed” include and apply to an entry in writing by a registering officer on a rider or covering slip to any document tendered for registration under this Act; (6) “Immovable Property” includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growing crops nor grass; [(6A) “India” means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir;] (7) “Lease” includes a counterpart, kabuliyat, and undertaking to cultivate or occupy, and an agreement to lease; (8) “Minor” means a person who, according to the personal law to which he is subject, has not attained majority; (9) “Movable Property” includes standing timber, growing crops and grass, fruit upon and juice in trees, and property of every other description, except immovable property; and (10) “Representative” includes the guardian of a minor and the committee or other legal curator of a lunatic or idiot. * * * * *

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

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Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/2190/5/A1908-16.pdf, 721,071 bytes, sha256 95b81008f2d529cf...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-01. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. This Act carries the heaviest State amendment apparatus in the corpus — 44 regions and 154 cited blocks, several States stacked under a single banner — all of which is skipped rather than presented as central law (D-052). The published section set is the Act's own arrangement of sections exactly: 1-93 plus 16A, 23A and 32A, 96 in all. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.

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