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Things real

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Such things as are permanent, fixed, and immovable, which cannot be carried out of their place ; as lands and tenements.

2 Bl. Comm. 16.

This definition has been objected to as not embracing incorporeal rights. Mr. Stephen defines things real to "consist of things substantial and immovable, and of the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of these."

1 Steph. Comm. 156.

Things real are otherwise described to consist of lands, tenements, and hereditaments.

See Bates v. Spar-rell, 10 Mass. 324; People v. Brooklyn, 9 Barb. (N. Y.) 546.

Things accessory are of the nature of the principal. Finch, Law, b.

1, c. 3, n. 25.

Things are construed according to that which was the cause thereof. Finch, Law, b.

1, c. 3, n. 4.

Things are dissolved as they he Contracted. Finch, Law, b.

1, c. 3, n. 7.

Things grounded npon an ill and void beginning cannot have a good perfection. Finch, Law, b.

1, c. 3, n. 8.

Things in action, entry, or re-entry cannot he granted over.

Van Rensselaer V. Ball, 19 N. Y. 100, 103.

Things incident cannot be severed. Finch, Law, b.

3, c. 1, n. 12.

Things incident pass by the grant of the principal.

Seymour v. Canandaigua A N. F. R. Co., 25 Barb. (N. Y.) 284, 310.

Things incident shall pass hy the grant of the principal, but not the principal by the grant of the incident.

Co.. Litt. 152a, 151b; Broom, Max. 483.