real actions

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
REAL ACTIONS. Those which concern the realty only, being such by which the 
demandant claims title to have any lands or tenements, rents, or other 
hereditaments, in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life. 3 Bl. Com. 117. 
Vide Actions. 
     2. In the civil law, by real actions are meant those which arise from a 
right in a thing, whether it be movable or immovable. 
    

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