Things
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art.
332.
Any object that may be possessed; all matters of substance in contradiction to persons; whatever may be possessed or owned; subjects of property and dominion; with "effects" or "goods" or In this sense it Is opposed, in the language of the la'W, to uie word "persons." See Property; Bes.