Things
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton do Berne, art.
332.
In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons. ‘Thing, in legal contemplation, even when we have to do with a material object, is not precisely the object as we find it in common experience, but rather the entirety of its possible legal relations to persons.’* Pollock, First Book of Jurispr.
133.
An operation for abortion is a thing, within the act of congress declaring non-mailable obscene books and every article and thing for procuring abortion, etc.; U. S. v. Somers,