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Extent. (25-B) the word "bond" shall also include a document whereby a person promised to another to make payment of money on condition that, if a particular act is done or a particular act is not done, the said promise shall become void;

(26) the word "will" shall include a codicil and every writing having a mention of a voluntary posthumous transfer or disposition of any property;

(26-A) "registered" used with reference to a document, shall mean, in relation to any period before the first day of November 1956, registered in the pre-Reorganisation Hyderabad State, and in relation to any period commencing on or after that day, registered in the area to which this Act extends;

(27) the word "oath" shall include affirmation and every declaration of the person by law allowed to affirm or declare instead of swearing;

(28) the word "affidavit" means the statement made in writing and certified by oath before an officer of a court or other authority;

(29) The word "act" when used with respect to an offence or wrong for which a suit for damages can be instituted shall include a series of acts; and words which refer to acts done shall also extend to illegal omissions;

(30) The word "offence" shall mean any act or omission made punishable under any law by a Criminal Court;

(31) The word "abet" and its derivatives shall be used in the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code, 1860;

(32) The word "illegal" applies to everything which is an offence or which is prohibited by law, or which forms a ground for a civil action;

(33) The words "legally bound to do" may be used in respect of a person when its omission by him is illegal;

(34) The word "injury" means every kind of damage illegally caused to any person in body, mind, reputation or goods;

(35) The words "public nuisance" shall mean a public nuisance as defined in the lndian Penal Code, 1860;

(36) An act shall be deemed "to be done in good faith" also in the case where it is in fact done in good faith even though it is done negligently;

(37) The word "imprisonment" shall include both rigorous imprisonment and simple imprisonment;

(38) "Financial Year", "month" and "year" shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in clauses (21), (35) and (66) of section 3 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (Central Act 10 of 1897);

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(40) The words importing the singular number shall also extend to the plural number;

(41) The words importing the masculine gender shall also extend to the feminine gender;

(42) The word "public" extends to every community of public or class of people;

(43) The word "person" shall include any company or association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not;

(43-A) The word "minor" means a person the eighteenth year of whose age has not been completed;

(44) The word "father" shall include every such person in whose personal law adoption is permitted and who has adopted;

(45) The word "son" shall include every such person in whose personal law adoption is permitted and who has been adopted;

(45-A) The word "cattle" shall include elephant, camel, bullock, buffalo, horse, pony, mule, ass, pig, ram and goat;

(46) The word "vessel" shall include every ship or boat, or other description of vessels which may be used in navigation; Unless a different intention appears,-

(1) every Act shall extend to the whole of the area to which this Act extends;

(2) every Act shall come into operation after one month from the date of publication thereof in the Official Gazette;

(3) when an Act comes into operation all those enactments and parts of enactments shall be repealed the subject of which has been merely repeated in, or is absolutely contradictory to that Act;

(4) by a repeal of any Act the enactments and orders which might have been repealed thereby shall not come into operation;

(5) a repeal of any Act shall not affect,-

(a) the previous operation of any repealed enactment or anything established by that enactment or duly done; or

(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability accrued or incurred under any repealed enactment; or

(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any repealed enactment; or

(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid;

and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy shall be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty forfeiture or punishment shall be so imposed as if the enactment had not been repealed.