1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the 2
*** Registration Act,
1908.
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[(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir:
Provided that the State Government may exclude any districts or tracts of country from its operation.]
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1909.
2. Definitions.—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 4
[an Indian], 5
*** 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;
(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;
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[(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;
1. It has been amended in its application to West Bengal by Ben. Act 5 of 1942 and West Ben. Acts 29 of 1950 and 31 of 1951;
to Maharashtra by Bombay Acts 5 of 1929, 17 of 1930, 18 of 1933, 24 of 1939, 10 of 1939, 10 of 1942 and 6 of 1960,
Maharashtra Acts 19 of 1960 and 20 of 1971; to the C.P. Act 1 of 1937 and M.P. Act 8 of 1965; to Madras and Andhra by
Madras Acts 3 of 1935 and 17 of `952; to Orissa by Orissa Act 3 of 1933; to the Punjab by Punjab Act 8 of 1941 and 19 of
1961; to Bihar by Bihar Acts 14 of 1947 and 24 of 1952; to Kerala by Kerala Act 7 of 1968; to Himachal Pradesh by H.P. Act
2 of 1969; to Pondicherry by Pondicherry Act 17 of 1970; to Uttar Pradesh by U.P. Acts 14 of 1971, 48 of 1975 and 57 of
1976; to Haryana by Haryana Act 36 of 1973; to Maharashtra by Maharashtra Acts 29 of 1974 and 49 of 1975; to Tamil Nadu
by T.N. Act 31 of 1974; to Orissa by Orissa Act 11 of 1976 and to West Bengal by West Ben. Act 17 of 1978.
This Act has been extended to—
Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s.2 and first Schedule, Goa, Daman and Diu by Reg. 11 of 1963, s. 3 and
Schedule and the whole of the Union territory of Lakshadweep by Reg. 8 of 1965, s.3 and Schedule.
Pondicherry by Act 26 of 1968, s. 3 and Schedule.
2. The word “Indian” omitted by Act 45 of 1969, s. 2.
3. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for sub-section (2).
4. Subs. by A.O. 1950, for “a Native of India”.
5. The words and brackets “his cast (if any) and” omitted by Act 17 of 1956, s. 2.
6. Ins. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule.
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(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.