Section 2

In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context —“assurance” includes any conveyance, memorandum of charge or discharge, deed of consent to the discharge of a trustee, private Act, order of court, or certificate of appointment of trustee in bankruptcy;“conveyance” includes any assignment, appointment, lease or settlement made by deed on a sale, mortgage, demise or settlement of any land or appointment of a new trustee in respect thereof which has been executed by one or more of the parties by whom any interest in the land is thereby conveyed;“land” includes land tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, and houses and other buildings and also an undivided share in land;“lease” includes an agreement for a lease;“registered surveyor” means a person registered under the Land Surveyors Act [Cap. 156];“memorandum of charge” includes any memorandum of a lien or charge on any land which is registered under this Act;“mortgage” includes any charge on any land for securing money or money’s worth and any transfer of a mortgage; and “mortgagee” has a corresponding meaning;“order of court” means any judgment, decree, writ of execution or sequestration, adjudication in bankruptcy or other order or process of or issuing from that court or other court of competent jurisdiction whereby any interest in any land is or may be affected;“probate” means the probate of any will or any letters of administration with the will annexed or copy thereof, stamped with the seal of the Supreme Court or other court of competent jurisdiction, or a certified office copy thereof;“Registrar” means the Registrar or the Deputy Registrar of Deeds appointed under this Act;“will” includes codicil.