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–3– -3§ 61. Words denoting number, gender, etc.; definitions As Tised in this Code, unless it is otherwise provided or the context requires a different meaning: words importing the singular include the plural, and words importing the plural include the singular; words importing the masculine gender include all genders; words used in the present tense include the future as well as the present; "affinity", when applied to the marriage relation, means the connection existing in consequence of marriage between each of the married persons and the blood relatives of the other; "agency", includes the Canal Zone Government, the Panama Canal Company, and any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or corporation in which the United States has an interest, unless the context shows that the term is intended to be used in a more limited sense; "aircraft" means contrivance used, capable of being used, or designed, for navigation or flight in the air; "Canal Zone", in a geographical sense, embraces the same land, land under water, and islands that are designated as such by sections 1 and 2 of Title 2, and the corridor referred to in section 2 of this title, as far as its inclusion in the term "Canal Zone" is consistent with the General Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama, signed March 2, 1936; "department" means any one of the executive departments enumerated in section 158 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (5 U.S.C. sec. 1), unless the context shows that the term is intended to describe the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the government of the United States. "depose" means to make a written statement under oath; "Government of the Canal Zone" embraces the Canal Zone Government, the agency continued under section 31 of Title 2, together with the judicial and law-enforcement offices and officers established or provided for by Title 3. "insane person" includes every idiot, lunatic, and person non compos mentis; "month" means a calendar month; "oath" includes affirmation or declaration; "officer" includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office; "person" and "whoever", respectively, include a corporation, company, association, joint stock company, firm, partnership, and society, as well as an individual; "personal property" includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt; "President" means the President of the United States; "process" means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings; "property" includes both real and personal property; "real property" includes real estate, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal; "seal" means a particular sign made to attest, in the most formal manner, the execution of an instrument; and a public seal, when the seal of a court or public officer is required by law to be affixed to any paper, means a stamp or impression of the seal, made with an instrument provided by law, upon the paper alone, or upon any substance attached to the paper capable of receiving a visible impression;

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