Legal Definition and Related Resources of Real

Of, pertaining to or consisting of land and tenements; contrasted with things personal . Also, actual , having an objective independent existence.

At Common Law. A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. “Real security,” therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2 Atk. 806 ; 2 Ves. Sr. 547. In Civil Law. That which relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a “real injury” is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal, in the common-law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.

adjective

• accurate
• actual
• ascertained
• authentic
• bonafide
• conformable to fact
• correct
• dependable
• factual
• genuine
• germanus
• inartificial
• incontestable
• indisputable
• irrefutable
• legitimate
• natural
• right
• scientific
• sincems
• sure
• true
• trustworthy
• truthful
• undeniable
• undoubtable
• unerroneo’us
• unfallacious
• unfeigned
• unimagined
• unimpeachable
• unmistaken
• unquestionable
• unsimulated
• unspurious
• unsynthetic
• valid
• veracious
• veritable
• verus
• Associated Concepts: real estate
• real party interest
• real property
• real servitude

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Real in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of real.

Grammar

This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Real

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early 14c., “actually existing, true;” mid-15c., “relating to things” (especially property), from Old French reel “real, actual,” from Late Latin realis “actual,” in Medieval Latin “belonging to the thing itself,” from Latin res “matter, thing,” of uncertain origin. Meaning “genuine” is recorded from 1550s; sense of “unaffected, no-nonsense” is from 1847. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. [Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit”] Real estate, the exact term, is first recorded 1660s, but in Middle English real was used in law in reference to immovable property, paired with, and distinguished from, personal. Noun phrase real time is early 19c. as a term in logic and philosophy, 1953 as an adjectival phrase; get real, usually an interjection, was U.S. college slang in 1960s, reached wide popularity c. 1987.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• real in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• real in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis