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Things

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Definition

Things, the subjects of dominion or property, as distinguished from persons. They are distributed into three kinds: (1) things real or immovable, comprehending lands, tenements, and hereditaments; (2) things personal or movable comprehending goods and chattels; and (3) things mixed, partaking of the characteristics of the two former, as a title-deed, a term for years. the civil law divided things into corporeal (tangi possunt) and incorporeal (tangi non possunt). See CHOSE.

Things, when used in conjunction with goods, ready money, etc., with reference to accounting between partnership includes, or extends to debts also as it is as general a word as could well be made use of, Gainshorough v. Stock, 27 ER 659

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