Mixed subjects of property, such as fall within the definition of things real, but which are attended nevertheless with some of the legal qualities of things personal, as emblements, fixtures, and shares in public undertakings connected with land. Besides these, there are others which, though things personal in point of definition, are, in respect of some of their legal qualities, of the nature of things real; such are animals fer' natur', charters and deeds, Court rolls and other evidences of the title of land, together with the chests in which they are contained, ancient family pictures, ornaments, tomb-stones, costs of armour, with pennons and other ensigns, and especially heirlooms.
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