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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civil law. Every species of immovable which can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase.

3 Toullier, no. 472.

In Scotch law

Land, and all property connected with land; real estate, as distinguished from movables, or personal estate.

Bell.