KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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records, the burden is said to be real. Bell.— Real chymin. L. Fr. In old English law. The royal way; the king's highway, (regiq via.) —Real injury. In the civil law. An injury arising from an unlawful act, as distinguished from a verbal injury, which was done by words. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 2, c. 15, nn. 3, 4.—Real things, (or things real.) In common law. Such things as are permanent, fixed, and im movable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements. 2 Bl. Comm. 15. Things substantial and immovable, and the rights and profits annexed to or issuing out of them. 1 Steph. Comm. 156. As to real "Action," "Assets," "Chattels," "Composition," "Contract," "Covenant," "Es tate," "Evidence," "Issue," "Obligation," "Party," "Poinding," "Privilege," "Proper ty," "Representative," "Right," "Security," "Servitude," "Statute," "Warrandice," and "Wrong," see those titles. The body of laws relating to real property. This use of the term is popular rather than tech nical. In the civil law. A law which relates to specific property, whether movable or im movable. Laws purely real directly and indirectly regulate property, and the rights of proper ty, without intermeddling with or changing the state of the person. Wharton. REALITY. In foreign law. That qual ity of laws which concerns property or things, (qucB ad rem spectant.) Story, Confl. Laws, § 16. REALIZE. To convert any kind of prop erty into money; but especially to receive the returns from an investment. See Bitti ner v. Gomprecht, 28 Misc. Rep. 218, 58 N T. Supp. 1011. REAIi LAW. At common law. REALTY. A brief term for real proper ty ; also for anything which partakes of the nature of real property. —Quasi realty. Things which are fixed in contemplation of law to realty, but movable in themselves, as heir-looms, (or limbs of the in heritance,) title-deeds, court rolls, etc. Wharton. REAPPRAISER. A person who, in cer tain cases, is appointed to make a revalua tion or second appraisement of imported goods at the custom-house. A faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, good from evil, and which enables the pos sessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions. Webster. Also an in ducement, motive, or ground for action, as in the phrase "reasons for an appeal." See Nelson v. Clongland, 15 Wis. 393; Miller v. Miller, 8 Johns. (N. Y.) 77. REASON. REALM. A kingdom; a country. 1 Taunt. 270; 4 Camp. 289.

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Spanish law.

Cause,

(causa.) Las Partidas, pt. 4, tit. 4, 1. 2.

BE. Lat. In the matter of; in the case of. A term of frequent use in designating Judicial proceedings, in which there is only one party. Thus, "Re Vivian" signifies "In the matter of Vivian," or in "Vivian's Case."

BE. FA. IiO. The abbreviation of "re cordari facias loquelam," (q. v.)

Be, verbis, seripto, consensu, tradi tione, junctura Testes sumere pacta solent. Compacts usually take their cloth ing from the thing itself, from words, from writing, from consent, from delivery. Plowd. 161. READERS. In the middle temple, those persons were so called who were appointed to deliver lectures or "readings" at certain periods during term. The clerks in holy or ders who read prayers and assist in the per formance of divine service in the chapels of the several inns of court are also so termed. Brown. READING-IN. In English ecclesiastical law. The title of a person admitted to a rectory or other benefice Will be divested un less within two months after actual posses sion he publicly read in the church of the benefice, upon some Lord's day, and at the appointed times, the morning and evening service, according to the book of common prayer; and afterwards, publicly before the congregation, declare his assent to such book; and also publicly read the thirty-nine articles in the same church, in the time of common prayer, with declaration of his as sent thereto; and moreover, within three months after his admission, read upon some Lord's day in the same church, in the presence of the congregation, in the time of divine service, a declaration by him subscrib ed before the ordinary, of conformity to the Liturgy, together with the certificate of the ordinary of its having been so subscribed. 2 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 687; Wharton. REAFFORESTED. Where a deafforest ed forest is again made a forest. 20 Car. II. c 3. REAL. In common law. Relating to land, as distinguished from personal proper ty. This term is applied to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. In the civil lair. Relating to a thing, (whether movable or immovable,) as distin guished from a person. —Real burden. In Scotch law. Where a right to lands is expressly granted under the burden of a specific sum, which is declared a burden on the lands themselves, or where the right is declared null if the sum be not paid, and where the amount of the sum, and the name of the creditor in it, can be discovered from the BI-.LAW DTCT.(2D ED.)—63