The pronoun “he” and its derivatives are used of any person, whether male or female.

Every expression which is explained in any part of this Code is used in every part of this Code in conformity with the explanation.

Chapter II: General Explanations

Section 6: Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions

Section 7: Sense of expression once explained

Section 8: Gender

Section 9: Number

Section 10: Man, Woman

Section 11: Person

Section 12: Public

Section 13: [Titled Queen repealed by the Govt. of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1950]

Section 14: Servant of Government

Section 15: [Titled British India repealed by the Govt. of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937]

Section 16: [Titled Government of India repealed by the Govt. of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937]

Section 17: Government

Section 18: India

Section 19: Judge

Section 20: Court of Justice

Section 21: Public Servant

Section 22: Movable Property

Section 23: Wrongful Gain

Section 24: Dishonestly

Section 25: Fraudulently

Section 26: Reason to believe

Section 27: Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant

Section 28: Counterfeit

Section 29: Document

Section 29A: Electronic record

Section 30: Valuable security

Section 31: A will

Section 32: Words referring to acts include illegal omissions

Section 33: Act, Omission

Section 34: Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention

Section 35: When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention

Section 36: Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission

Section 37: Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence

Section 38: Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences

Section 39: Voluntarily

Section 40: Offence

Section 41: Special law

Section 42: Local law

Section 43: Illegal, Legally bound to do

Section 44: Injury

Section 45: Life

Section 46: Death

Section 47: Animal

Section 48: Vessel

Section 49: Year, Month

Section 50: Section

Section 51: Oath

Section 52: Good faith

Section 52A: Harbor

Throughout this Code every definition of an offence, every penal provision, and every illustration of every such definition or penal provision, shall be understood subject to the exceptions contained in the Chapter entitled “General Exceptions”, though those exceptions are not repeated in such definition, penal provision, or illustration.

Illustrations:
(a) The sections, in this Code, which contain definitions of offences, do not express that a child under seven years of age cannot commit such offences, but the definitions are to be under­stood subject to the general exception which provides that noth­ing shall be an offence which is done by a child under seven years of age.
(b) A, a police-officer, without warrant, apprehends Z, who has committed murder. Here A is not guilty of the offence of wrongful confinement; for he was bound by law to apprehend Z and there­fore the case falls within the general exception which provides that “nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is bound by law to do it”.