English property law
As property law is called the law of England and Wales, all of the legal rules governing the protection, acquisition and transfer of property.
Systematics and legal sources
English law has neither a coherent, self-contained system of institutions of property law nor a numerus clausus of real rights. The various property law institutes are rather scattered by statute law and common law recognized.
Property
Although the English Institute of the property includes on the one hand a continental European ownership (including ownership) comparable legal institution, but is used in legal English more in terms of property rights. The English legal doctrine distinguishes real and personal property. The distinction goes back to the system of writs in English legal history. In medieval law could thereby bring an action for restitution of a thing in nature, or for damages. The former was called actio in rem and was only allowed in issuing country (ie real estate). The designation actio in rem, the term developed real property or realty; he always means only the ownership of land, not against other rights on land. The corresponding area of law is known as agricultural law.
The action for damages, however, was called actio in persona. Therefore movable property means personal property or personalty. Personal property is divided ( on movable property all other proprietary rights, mainly property ) in chattels real ( rule interests in land of defined duration, such as a leasehold ) and chattels personal. Furthermore, a distinction is choses in possession / chattels (about, chattels ') and choses in action (receivables, copyrights, securities).