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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Actual, not formal or nominal; a relating to land, or to ownership of or title to land, — a sense derived from the feudal law, in which land was more important than other things. Real action: an action for the recovery of real property; an action relating to real property. Real assets: real estate in the hands of an heir, chargeable with the payment of the debts of the ancestor. Real contract: a contract respecting real property, as a lease for years. Real estate: landed property, including all estates and interests in lands which are held for life or some longer period of duration; — broker: one who engages in the purchase and sale of real estate as a busine.ss. Real evidence: evidence of which any object belonging to the class of things is the source, persons included, in respect of such properties as belong to them in common with things. Real property: lands, tenements and hereditaments. Real things, or things real: things permanent, fixed and immovable, as lands and tenements, and the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of them.

In old English law

Real wrong; an injury to the freehold. In Scots law. Real right: a right of property in a subject; a jus in re. In the civil law. Relating or belonging to, or founded upon, a thing, related the obligation arose from the thing itself which was the subject of it Real injury: an injury arising from an unlawful act, as distinguished from a verbal injury. Real, or'prsedial servitnde: a right which one estate or piece of land owes to another. Real statutes: statutes which in the main have property for their subject