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..... b) "application" includes a petition; (c) "bill of exchange" includes a hundi and a cheque; (d) "bond" includes any instrument whereby a person obliges himself to pay money to another, on condition that the obligation shall be void if a specified act is performed, or is not performed, as the case may be; (e) "defendant" includes— (i) any person from or through whom a defendant derives his liabilit .....

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..... " means the period of limitation prescribed for any suit, appeal or application by the Schedule, and "prescribed period" means the.period of limitation computed in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (k) "promissory note" means any instrument whereby the maker engages absolutely to pay a specified sum of money to another at a time therein limited, or on demand, or at sight; (l) "suit" does .....

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