Definition of Real

Re`al´   Pronunciation: rē´al
n.1.A former small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
a.1.Royal; regal; kingly.
1.Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
2.True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
3.Relating to things, not to persons.
4.(Alg.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
5.(Law) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
Chattels real
(Law) such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel.
Real action
(Law) an action for the recovery of real property.
Real assets
(Law) lands or real estate in the hands of the heir, chargeable with the debts of the ancestor.
Real composition
(Eccl. Law) an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson or vicar, with consent of the ordinary, that such lands shall be discharged from payment of tithes, in consequence of other land or recompense given to the parson in lieu and satisfaction thereof.
Real estate
lands, tenements, and hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land.
- Blackstone.
Real presence
(R. C. Ch.) the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation.
- Kent.
Real servitude
(Civil Law) a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor.
- Erskine.
n.1.A realist.


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