Section 1: Key definitions for land registration in Uganda
1.Interpretation
In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context or subject matterβ
"addition" means the description as to residence and profession, trade or occupation of any person;
"bankruptcy" includes liquidation of a company, and terms applicable to bankruptcy include terms applicable to the liquidation of a company;
"certificate of title" or "certificate" means a certificate of title issued by the Registrar under this Act;
"endorsed" includes anything written upon or in the margin or at the foot of any document;
"final mailo certificate" means a certificate by which the title of an African of Uganda to land is finally recognised;
"grant" means the grant by or on behalf of the Government of Uganda or a controlling authority under the Public Lands Act of land whether in fee or for years;
"encumbrances" includes all prior estates, interests, rights, claims and demands which can or may be had, made or set up in, to, upon, or in respect of, the land;
"instrument" includes any document in pursuance of which an entry is made in the register;
"land" includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments corporeal or incorporeal; and in every certificate of title, transfer and lease issued or made under this Act, "land" also includes all easements and appurtenances appertaining to the land described therein or reputed to be part of that land or appurtenant to it;
"letters of administration" includes, in the case of the estate of a deceased African of Uganda, a certificate of succession or other document from a competent authority declaring the right of any person to deal with that estate, and "administrator" includes that person;
"limited certificate" means a certificate limited as to parcels registered under section 39;
"proprietor" means the owner whether in possession, remainder, reversion or otherwise of land or of a lease or mortgage whose name appears or is entered as the proprietor of that land or lease or mortgage in the Register Book;
"proprietor" also includes the done of a power to appoint or dispose of that land or lease or mortgage;
"Registrar" means the Registrar of Titles appointed under section 3 and includes the deputy registrar of titles so appointed and any assistant registrar of titles so appointed to the extent that he or she has been authorised to exercise or perform any power or duty conferred or imposed by this Act upon the Registrar of Titles;
"settlement" means any document under or by virtue of which any land is so limited as to create partial or limited estates or interests;
"surveyed" means surveyed, demarcated and delineated upon a map or plan to the satisfaction of the Commissioner Surveys and Mapping.
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