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CONVEYANCING ACT 1881 - SECT 2

Interpretation of property, land, &c.

2. In this Act

(i)Property, unless a contrary intention appears, includes real and personal
property, and any estate or interest in any property, real or personal, and
any debt, and any thing in action, and any other right or interest:

(ii)Land, unless a contrary intention appears, includes land of any tenure,
and tenements and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, and houses and
other buildings, also an undivided share in land:

(iii)In relation to land, income includes rents and profits, and possession
includes receipt of income:

(iv)Manor includes lordship, and reputed manor or lordship:

(v)Conveyance, unless a contrary intention appears, includes assignment,
appointment, lease, settlement, and other assurance, and covenant to
surrender, made by deed, on a sale, mortgage, demise, or settlement of any
property, or on any other dealing with or for any property; and convey, unless
a contrary intention appears, has a meaning corresponding with that of
conveyance:

(vi)Mortgage includes any charge on any property for securing money or money's
worth; and mortgage money means money, or money's worth, secured by a
mortgage; and mortgagor includes any person from time to time deriving title
under the original mortgagor, or entitled to redeem a mortgage, according to
his estate, interest, or right, in the mortgaged property; and mortgagee
includes any person from time to time deriving title under the original
mortgagee; and mortgagee in possession is, for the purposes of this Act, a
mortgagee who, in right of the mortgage, has entered into and is in possession
of the mortgaged property:

<(vii)Incumbrance includes a mortgage in fee, or for a less estate, and a trust for securing money, and a lien, and a charge of a portion, annuity, or other capital or annual sum; and incumbrancer has a meaning corresponding with that of incumbrance, and includes every person entitled to the benefit of an incumbrance, or to require payment or discharge thereof:


(viii)Purchaser, unless a contrary intention appears, includes a lessee or
mortgagee, and an intending purchaser, lessee, or mortgagee, or other person,
who, for valuable consideration, takes or deals for any property; and
purchase, unless a contrary intention appears, has a meaning corresponding
with that of purchaser; but sale means only a sale properly so called:

(ix)Rent includes yearly or other rent, toll, duty, royalty, or other
reservation, by the acre, the ton, or otherwise; and fine includes premium or
fore-gift, and any payment, consideration, or benefit in the nature of a fine,
premium, or fore-gift:

<(x)Building purposes include the erecting and improving of, and the adding to, and the repairing of buildings; and a building lease is a lease for building purposes or purposes connected therewith:


(xi)A mining lease is a lease for mining purposes, that is, the searching for,
winning, working, getting, making merchantable, carrying away, or disposing of
mines and minerals, or purposes connected therewith, and includes a grant or
licence for mining purposes:

<(xii)Will includes codicil:


(xiii)Instrument includes deed, will, ..., and Act of Parliament:

(xiv)Securities include stocks, funds, and shares:

<(xv)Bankruptcy includes liquidation by arrangement, and any other act or proceeding in law having, under any Act for the time being in force, effects or results similar to those of bankruptcy; and bankrupt has a meaning corresponding with that of bankruptcy:


(xvi)Writing includes print; and words referring to any instrument, copy,
extract, abstract, or other document include any such instrument, copy,
extract, abstract, or other document being in writing or in print, or partly
in writing and partly in print:

(xvii)Person includes a corporation:

Application of stated conditions of sale to all purchases.

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