Real
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
At Common Law
A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. "Real security," therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands.
2 Atk. 806; 2 Ves. Sr. 547.
In Civil Law. That which relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a "real injury" is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal, in the common-law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.