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real right in the civil law of Louisiana : a right that is attached to a thing rather than a person [the right of ownership…may be burdened with a real right in favor of another person as allowed by law "Louisiana Civil Code"] NOTE: A real right is not restricted to real property since it can also be attached to movable property. Real rights include ownership, use, pledge, usufruct, mortgage, and predial servitude. ...
Real right
Real right, the right of property, jus 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
real [Anglo-French, concerning land, property, or things (rather than persons), from Middle French, from Medieval Latin and Late Latin; Medieval Latin realis relating to things (in law), from Late Latin, actual, from Latin res thing, fact] 1 a : of or relating to real property [a action] see also real property at property b in the civil law of Louisiana : attached to a thing rather than a person [a obligation is transferred along with the thing to which it is attached] see also real right compare personal 2 : actual 3 : adjusted for inflation esp. to reflect actual purchasing power [ income] ...
right
right [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty] [that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable s "Declaration of Independence"] see also natural right b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act [the defendant may be under a legal duty…to exercise reasonable care for the plaintiff's safety, so that the plaintiff has a corresponding legal to insist on that care "W. L. Prosser and W. P. K...
Real representative
Real representative. The name formerly given to a personal representative on whom real estate devolved on the death of any person between the 31st December, 1897, and the 1st January, 1926, under the provisions of the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897.Prior to the commencement on the 1st of January, 1898, of the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 [see (English) TRANSFER OF LAND ACTS], the real estate of a deceased person vested in his heir, heiresses, or devisees, and his personal estate in his executors or administrators. The (English) Land Transfer act, 1897, (60 & 61 Vict. c. 65), reproduced and extended by the (English) Administration of Estates Act, 1925, established a real representative in the person of the executor or administrator of any person dying after the commencement of that Act, in whom all his real estate except copyhold was vested notwithstanding his will, unless, as in a joint tenancy, any other person had a right to take by survivorship, so that one and the same pers...
prescription
prescription [partly from Middle French prescription establishment of a claim, from Late Latin praescription- praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning, dictate, order; partly from Latin praescription- praescriptio order] 1 : acquisition of an interest (as an easement) in real property that is usually less than a fee by long-term, continuous, open, and hostile use and possession as determined by the law of a jurisdiction [gained title by ] see also easement by prescription at easement compare adverse possession at possession 2 in the civil law of Louisiana a : the running of a period of time set by law after which a right is unenforceable in Louisiana courts but may be enforced in another state forum [an interruption of ] [by the of ten years] ;also : the bar to an action that results from prescription see also peremptory exception compare peremption b : the creation of a right by the running of a period of time...
title
title [Anglo-French, inscription, legal right, from Old French, from Latin titulum inscription, chapter heading, part of the law that sanctions an action] 1 a : the means or right by which one owns or possesses property ;broadly : the quality of ownership as determined by a body of facts and events after-acquired title : title that vests automatically in a grantee when acquired by a grantor who purported to sell the property before acquiring title ;also : a doctrine that requires such vesting compare estoppel by deed at estoppel NOTE: The doctrine of after-acquired title generally does not apply when the grantor receives title by quitclaim deed; to vest title in the grantee the deed must include words expressing such an intention. clear title : title that exists free of claims or encumbrances on the property [had clear title to the farm] ;broadly : marketable title in this entry equitable title : title vested in one who is considered by the application of equitable principl...
Real action
Real action, one brought for the specific recovery of lands, tenements, and hereditaments.Among the civilians, real actions, otherwise called vindications, are those in which a man demanded something that was his own. They were founded on dominion, or jus in re.The real actions of the Roman Law were not, like the real actions of the Common Law, confined to real estate, but they included personal as well as real property. But the same distinction as to classes of remedies and actions pervades the Common and Civil Law. Thus we have, in the Common Law, the distinct classes of real 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 where the person is liable by reason of and in connection with property, Story's Confl. Laws, 781.By the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27...
right of entry
right of entry 1 a : the legal right of taking or resuming possession of real property in a peaceable manner b : power of termination at power c : the legal right to enter upon real property of another for a special purpose (as to show leased property to a prospective purchaser or to make repairs) without being guilty of trespass 2 : the right of an alien to enter a nation, state, or other political jurisdiction for some special purpose (as journalism or academic study) ...
Emphyteusis
A real right susceptible of assignment and of descent charged on productive real estate the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes and sometimes a small rent...
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