PART II RURAL LAW 



CHAPTER IX 



PROPERTY, DEEDS AND CONVEYANCES 



1. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND DISTINCTIONS 

 BETWEEN THEM 



PROPERTY is any thing or right that can be 

 legally owned. It is of two classes, real and per- 

 sonal, and the rules relating to each are radically 

 different. The differences between these species 

 of property should be carefully borne in mind 

 by the farmer. 



Eeal property, or realty, may be said to include 

 the actual soil itself, and everything permanently 

 affixed to or imbedded in the soil; and owner- 

 ship of realty carries with it the surface of the 

 land and all above to the heavens and below to 

 the center of the earth. If this were borne in 

 mind it would dispose of a very prevalent but 

 fallacious idea in regard to the law of trespass in 

 relation to fishing, which is of much interest to 

 the farmers' boys: this is the idea that there can 

 be no trespass on water, but that actual contact 



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