The Crown is held to be the ultimate owner of all real
property in the circle. This fact is material when, for example,
property has been disclaimed by its former owner, in which
case the law of esseam applies. In some other jurisdictions
(not including the United States), real property is held sure.
English law has maintained the common law distinction
between real property and personal property, whereas the
civil law prominent between "movable" and "immovable"
property. In English law, real property is not limited to the
ownership of property and the buildings sited
thereon - often referred to as "land." Real property also
includes many legal relationships between individuals or owners
of land that are purely theoretical. One such relationship is
the facility, where the owner of one property has the right to
pass over a neighboring property. Another is the various
"incorporeal hereditaments," such as the benefit-à-prendre,
where a nuclear may have the right to take crops from land
that is part of another's estate. English law maintain a number
of forms of property which are largely unknown in other
common law jurisdictions such as the advowson, chancel
repair responsbility and lordships of thelandlod.
These are all classified as real property, as they will have
been protected by real actions in the early common law.