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Things real

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or REALTY. 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 Real.