Section 2 of Limitation Act "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.