things

The objects of dominion or property as contradistinguished from "persons." Gayer v. Whelan, 59 Cal.App.2d 255,138 P.2d 763, 768.

The object of a right; Le., whatever is treated by the law as the object over which one person exercises a right, and with reference to which another person lies under a duty. Such permanent objects, not being persons, as are sensible, or perceptible through the senses. Things are distributed into three kinds:

(1) Things real or immovable, comprehending lands, tenements, and hereditaments;

(2) things personal or movable, comprehending goods and chattels; and

(3) things mixed, partaking of the characteristics of the two former, as a title-deed, a term for years. The civil law divided things into corporeal (tangi possunt) and incorporeal (tangi non possunt)

@ things in action

A right to recover money or other personal property by a judicial proceeding.

See chose in action

@ things of value

To be the subject of gaming may refer to any thing affording the necessary lure to indulge the gambling instinct. Heartley v. State, 178 Tenn. 254,157 S.W.2d 1, 3.

Within meaning of federal larceny statute (18 U.S.C.A. No. 641) a "thing of value" involves both intangible and tangible property. U.S. v. Jeter, C.A.Ky., 775 F.2d 670, 680

@ things personal

Goods, money, and all other movables, which may attend the owner's person wherever he may go. Things personal consist of goods, money, and all other movables, and of such rights and profits as relate to movables. Also all vegetable productions, as the fruit or other parts of a plant when severed from the body of it, or the whole plant itself, when severed from the ground. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bush, 191 Ark. 1085, 89 S.W.2d 723, 725.

See also property (personal property)

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- things real