Real Party
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Practice statutes frequently require that actions be brought in the name of the "real party in interest." As so used, the term means the person having the real beneficial interest in the obligation sued on. Thus, the assignee of a demand is the real party in interest (68 N. Y. 30), as is the person for whose benefit a contract is made by another (138 N. Y. 468; 112 N. Y. 1).
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In statutes requiring snits to be brought in the name of the "real party in interest," this term means the person who is actually and substantially interested in the subject-matter, as distingnished from one who bas only a nominal, forma], or technical interest in it or connection with it. Hoagland v. Van Etten, 22 Neb. 681, 35 N. W. 870; Gruber v. Baker, 20 Nev. 458, ,23 Pac. 858, 9 L. R. A. 802'; Chew v. Brumag-en. 13 Wall 504, 20 In Ed. 60S,
Defined under Party in Black's Law Dictionary.