Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires“certificate of title” means the instrument issued by the Registrar in duplicate declaring a person the registered proprietor of the land or interest in the land described therein; “current volume” means the volume of any register in use during the current year which has not yet been bound up in accordance with this Act; “dealing” means a dealing with land in any manner which requires an application to the Registrar to have the matter completed and made available by registration under this Act; “duplicate certificate of title” means one or other of the duplicate certificates of title prepared by the Registrar; 9 “incumbrance” means any of the incumbrances mentioned in section 103 of the Law of Property Act; CAP. 190. “incumbrancee” means the person in whose favour an incumbrance is made, constituted or created under this Act; CAP. 190. “incumbrancer” means a registered proprietor who duly makes, constitutes or creates an incumbrance under the Law of Property Act and this Act; “issued” means the placing in the register of one duplicate certificate of title and the delivery to a person of the other duplicate certificate of title which has been duly drawn up, signed and sealed by the Registrar in accordance with this Act; “memorandum of transfer” means the document signed and executed by the registered proprietor of any legal estate, interest or right in land held under a certificate of title requesting the Registrar to transfer such legal estate, interest or right to another “note” means the writing of the estates, interests, legal charges, incumbrances, transfers, assignments and discharges which the Registrar is required to make on a registered duplicate and on a proprietor’s duplicate to show the burdens and other matters affecting the land; “plan”, “map” or “diagram” means a sketch or drawing made of the position of the land as it lies in regard to the lands of adjoining proprietors, and showing the length of the boundary lines, the angles at which they lie towards each other, the extent of the whole land and the various subdivisions thereof; “proprietor’s duplicate” means the duplicate certificate of title of any kind issued to a registered proprietor; “records” means the registers, books, instruments, indexes, writings, deeds and documents preserved in the Registry; 10 “register” means a register kept under this Act; “registered” means the placing by the Registrar of a duplicate certificate of title, or a deed creating a legal charge, or a deed of incumbrance or other documents required to be registered, dated, signed and sealed, in the appropriate current volume of a register and marking thereon the number of the folio by which it is thereafter to be designated and referred to; “registered duplicate” means the duplicate certificate of title of any kind placed in the register; “registered incumbrance” means any incumbrance registered “registered land” means land or any interest in land in respect of which a certificate of title is issued under this Act; “registered proprietor” means the person declared by a certificate of title of any kind to be the registered proprietor of the land or the interest in the land described therein; “Registrar” means the Registrar General appointed under this Act; “transfer” means the conveyance of the proprietorship in land or any interest in land from a proprietor to another person; “transmission” means the passing of the proprietorship in land or any interest in land in consequence of any event or act other than a transfer under this Act. CAP. 190. (2) All words and expressions defined in the Law of Property Act shall have the same meaning in this Act as they have in that Act. 11