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Those which concern the realty only, being such by which the demandant claims title to have any lands or tenements, rents, or other hereditaments, in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life. 3 Bl. Com. 117. Vide Actions. 2. In the civil law, by real actions are meant those which arise from a right in a thing, whether it be movable or immovable. … [Read more...] about REAL ACTIONS

com. law. By this term are understood contracts in respect to real property. 3 Rawle, 225. 2. In the civil law real contracts are those which require the interposition of thing (rei,) as the subject of them; for instance, the loan for goods to be specifically returned. 3. By that law, contracts are divided into those which are formed by the mere consent of the parties, and … [Read more...] about REAL CONTRACT

A covenant that runs (is passed on) with the land. … [Read more...] about REAL COVENANT

Land and the property permanently attached to it, such as buildings, houses, stationary mobile homes, fences and trees. In legalese, real estate is also called real property. … [Read more...] about REAL ESTATE

In old English law. A writ for taking away an heir holding in socage, of which there were two sorts: One when the heir was married; the other when he was not. Reg. Orig. 163. … [Read more...] about RAPTU HAEREDIS