The essentials of American timber law Author:Jay P. Kinney Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ESSENTIALS AMERICAN TIMBER LAW CHAPTER I CLASSIFICATIONS OF PROPERTY §1. Corporeal and Incorporeal Things. The term "property" has been, and still ... more »is, used in more than one sense. Thus at times the word is used to signify the thing owned, and again the word denotes the right or interest which one has in a thing that is susceptible of ownership. The latter use of the term is better adapted to the requirements of a legal discussion. Some writers on English jurisprudence have made a classification of property into corporeal things, or physical objects that are visible and tangible, and incorporeal things, or those that have no physical existence but are mere rights or groups of rights which are related to and dependent upon corporeal things. It will be noted that the word "thing" is here used in a broad sense, and includes not only material objects that have physical existence, but also immaterial concepts that have only an ideal existence. The term "thing" is here equivalent to the word "res," or the word "chose," as used in legal parlance. §2. The Development of the Terms Real Property and Personal Property. While learned jurists were writing profound works upon the theory of corporeal and incorporeal rights, and attempting to explain the abstruse and subtle distinctions between lands, tenements and hereditaments on the one hand and goods and chattels on the other, there gradually developed in the common law a division of the same rights along an entirely different line of cleavage. This distinction appears to have had its origin in the pleadings, or procedure, by which property rights were enforced. Thus there were certain actions in which a tangible, specific thing, or right, which formed the subject matter of a legal contest could be recovered and there we...« less