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Mixed actions. Suits at Common Law partaking of the nature of real and personal actions, by which some real property was demanded, and also personal damages for a wrong sustained, were so called. They substantially partook, however, of the character of real actions, and were often so called, but they are now abolished, except the action of ejectment, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27. Correctly speaking, however, ejectment is in its form a species of the personal action of trespass. Steph. Plead. App. vii. See Now ACTION.

Those in Roman Law, in which some specific thing was demanded, and where also some personal obligations were claimed to be performed, Hallifax on Roman Law, 85