Section 2: Definitions

In this Act, unless the subject or context requires otherwise,-- (i) co-sharer, used in relation to any immovable property, means any person entitled as an owner or a proprietor to any share or part in such property, whether his name is or is not recorded as such owner or proprietor in the record of rights or in any register prepared in accordance with law; (ii) foreclose and foreclosure refer to the passing of a final decree for foreclosure under rule 3 of Order XXXIV of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Central Act 5 of 1908); (iii) house means any hut or building and includes any compound or enclosure appertaining thereto; (iv) immovable property means land or house property, wherever situated in the State; (v) land includes things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth, when sold or foreclosed alongwith the land to which they are attached but not otherwise; (vi) purchaser includes a person who has acquired immovable property under a final decree for foreclosure; (vii) sale means a transfer of ownership in immovable property in exchange for a price paid or promised or partly paid and partly promised; (viii) transfer means a sale, or a mortgage where the final decree for foreclosure in respect thereof has been passed.