| 2(1) | Act | Includes both a single act and a series of acts. |
| 2(2) | Animal | Any living creature other than a human being. |
| 2(3) | Child | A person below eighteen years of age. |
| 2(4) | Counterfeit | Making one thing resemble another with the intention of deceiving or likely causing deception. |
| 2(5) | Court | A Judge or body of Judges legally empowered to act judicially. |
| 2(6) | Death | The death of a human being, unless context indicates otherwise. |
| 2(7) | Dishonestly | Doing an act with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another. |
| 2(8) | Document | Any matter expressed through letters, figures, marks, or electronic/digital records intended to be used as evidence. |
| 2(9) | Fraudulently | Doing something with intent to defraud. |
| 2(10) | Gender | The pronoun “he” includes male, female, and transgender persons. |
| 2(11) | Good Faith | An act done with due care and attention. |
| 2(12) | Government | The Central Government or a State Government. |
| 2(13) | Harbour | Providing shelter, food, money, clothes, weapons, transport, or assistance to help someone evade arrest. |
| 2(14) | Injury | Any illegal harm to a person in body, mind, reputation, or property. |
| 2(15) | Illegal / Legally Bound | “Illegal” means an offence, something prohibited by law, or grounds for civil action. A person is legally bound to do something if omitting it would be illegal. |
| 2(16) | Judge | A person officially designated as a judge or legally empowered to give a judicial decision. |
| 2(17) | Life | The life of a human being. |
| 2(18) | Local Law | A law applicable only to a specific part of India. |
| 2(19) | Man | A male human being of any age. |
| 2(20) | Month / Year | Calculated according to the Gregorian calendar. |
| 2(21) | Movable Property | Property of any kind except land and things attached to the earth. |
| 2(22) | Number | Words in singular include plural and plural include singular, unless context indicates otherwise. |
| 2(23) | Oath | Includes solemn affirmation or legal declaration made before a public servant or court. |
| 2(24) | Offence | An act punishable under this Sanhita or under special/local law in certain sections. |
| 2(25) | Omission | Includes a single omission or a series of omissions. |
| 2(26) | Person | Includes individuals, companies, associations, or bodies of persons (incorporated or not). |
| 2(27) | Public | Includes any class or community of people. |
| 2(28) | Public Servant | Includes government officers, judges, military officers, election officials, and persons performing public duties. |
| 2(29) | Reason to Believe | A person has sufficient cause to believe something. |
| 2(30) | Special Law | A law relating to a specific subject. |
| 2(31) | Valuable Security | A document that creates, transfers, restricts, extinguishes, or acknowledges a legal right or liability. |
| 2(32) | Vessel | Any vehicle used for transporting people or goods by water. |
| 2(33) | Voluntarily | Causing an effect intentionally or with knowledge that it is likely to occur. |
| 2(34) | Will | A testamentary document relating to property after death. |
| 2(35) | Woman | A female human being of any age. |
| 2(36) | Wrongful Gain | Gaining property by unlawful means without legal entitlement. |
| 2(37) | Wrongful Loss | Losing property by unlawful means when legally entitled to it. |
| 2(38) | Gaining Wrongfully / Losing Wrongfully | Includes wrongful acquisition, retention, or deprivation of property. |
| 2(39) | Undefined Terms | Words not defined here but defined in IT Act 2000 or BNSS 2023 will have the same meanings as in those laws. |
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