Chapter the second.
Of REAL PROPERTY; and, first, of
CORPOREAL HEREDITAMENTS.
THE objects of dominion or property are things, as contradiſtinguiſhed from perſons: and things are by the law of England diſtributed into two kinds; things real, and things perſonal. Things real are ſuch as are permanent, fixed, and immoveable, which cannot be carried out of their place; as lands and tenements: things perſonal are goods, money, and all other moveables; which may attend the owner's perſon wherever he thinks proper to go.
In treating of things real, let us conſider, firſt, their ſeveral ſorts or kinds; ſecondly, the tenures by which they may be holden; thirdly, the eſtates which may be had in them; and, fourthly, the title to them, and the manner of acquiring and loſing it.
First, with regard to their ſeveral ſorts or kinds, things real are uſually ſaid to conſiſt in lands, tenements, or hereditaments. Land comprehends all things of a permanent, ſubſtantial nature; being a word of a very extenſive ſignification, as will preſently appear more at large. Tenement is a word of ſtill greater extent; and though in it's vulgar acceptation it is only applied to
