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[Existing Light]

Digging a bit farther back, the word real apparently originates with the Latin res, for law; and it's akin to a sanskrit word rayi, or property.

I always thought we used the term real estate to differentiate it from fake estate. As usual, I was wrong

 

[Perry Way]

I believe the word "real" in the term "real property" is a latin based word to attribute absolute property rights as rights that were granted to the real or royal. Real property used to be a real thing in this country (USA) before the neo-serfs decided that it was alright to accept the burden of paying taxes on the land. To my recollection, all other property rights in the world were either unclaimed and/or natural such as to indigenous peoples or some head honcho war lord or lucky inheritor owned the land and everyone else had to pay homage somehow to that big dude. Real property is a new term. Kings title. Allodial title to land. Unwavering, unfettered property rights. On your own property you are very much a King! A King in a land of many sovereign Kings! That is REAL Estate.

Digging a bit farther back, the word real apparently originates with the Latin res, for law; and it's akin to a sanskrit word rayi, or property.

Love this word stuff. Now, what was the original topic here?

 

[MattKing]

Real Property is best understood when it is contrasted with personal property. I found this by wandering the internet:

William Blackstone, in his 1756-1759 Commentaries on the Laws of England (Volume 2), wrote:

"Things real are such as are permanent, fixed and immovable; which cannot be carried out of their place, as lands and tenements.

"Things personal are goods, money and all other moveable; which may attend the owner's person wherever he thinks proper to go."

Matt

 

[Erik Petersson]

Continental and scandinavian legal tradition use terms such as "immobilien" (German: immobile things), "fast egendom" (Swedish: fixed property) etc. The Russians, and many states in the former Soviet sphere, similarly, use terms like "nedvizhimost", which means immovable. (French I do not know about.) Still, international legal discourse often use English language terms such as real property, real estate, property etc. It is always a mess to use common law terms to describe other legal systems if you are not very stringent.

It is often said that the queen still owns much of the land in Britain, while you americans would have full title yourselfs. Maybe the difference in terminology can traced from that fact.