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Real right

in re. The per-son having such right may sue for the subject itself. A personal right, jus ad rem, entitles the party only to an action for performance of the obligation.,

Real action

actions, personal actions, and mixed actions--the first, embracing those which concern real estate where the proceeding is purely in rem; the next, embracing all suits in personam for contracts and torts; and the last embracing those mixed suits

Public Authorities, Protection of

(1) six months as the limit of time for the action, but does not apply to an action in rem (The Burns, 1907, P. 137); or if the cause of action alleged is fraud, Pearson v. Dublin Corporation,

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Personality of laws

and capacity of persons; by the reality of laws, all laws which concern property of things; qu' ad rem spectant. Whenever they wish to express that the operation of a law is universal, they compendiously announce that

Oysters

the term sea-fish; see (English) Sea-Fishing Industry Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 45). An action in rem will lie for damage caused by the negligent grounding of a ship on an oyster bed (The Swift,

Ownership

forming the subject-matter of his ownership. It consists in a complex of rights, all of which are rights in rem, being good against all the world and not merely against specific person', Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th Edn., Ch.

Lien

of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing

Law of status

Law of status, means the category of law dealing with personal or non-proprietary rights, whether in rem or in personam. It is one of the three departments into which civil law is divider, Black's Law

Jus in re

property valid against anyone in the world; a complete and perfect right to a thing. Also termed jus in rem, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 865.

Information

of intrusion, for trespasses on Crown lands; debt, for Crown moneys due upon breaches of penal statutes; and in rem, when any goods are supposed to become they property of the Crown, no one claiming them, as treasure-trove,

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