Real Actions
Lawsuits concerning real property, or land. Under the COMMON LAW, one of three categories of forms of actions, the procedures by which a lawsuit was begun.
The categories of forms of actions were real actions, for lawsuits for the recovery of land; mixed actions, for lawsuits for the recovery of land and of monetary damages for harm done to it; and personal actions, for lawsuits to recover items of PERSONAL PROPERTY or monetary damages.
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