II.   Form

A Thing (also known as Rem or Re in Latin)  is a temporary Form being the Object of one or more Rights against which there exists a dispute or ongoing controversy before a competent forum of law having jurisdiction. There are three general kinds of Things:

(i) Things Real, also known as Things Immovable and Corporeal, being lands, tenements and hereditements; and

(ii) Things Personal, also known as Things Movable and Incorporaeal, being goods and chattels; and

(iii) Things Mixed being Things partaking the characteristics of Real and Personal such as a Title Deed.

The Form of a Thing, also known as Rem or Re cannot exist except within the bounds of a matter before a competent forum of Law:

(i) The effect of treating the Object of a Right in dispute as a Thing is to cause it to be converted temporarily into a form of Property or Rem or Re itself; and

(ii) By tradition in Western-Roman Law, a Person was prohibited from being converted into a Thing. However, Legal Persons are now commonly treated as Things; and

(iii) Things are generally construed according to that which was the first cause of the dispute. Hence, the descriptions used in the first cause and subsequent form of action, generally determines the labeling and description of any Things in dispute; and

(iv) The Status of an Object as a Thing and Rem or Re only continues to exist, so long as the matter which first converted it into a Thing continues, such as a case of Bankruptcy sine die (deferred to a latter date); and

(v) When a Thing is the subject of an action of recovery (Things in action, or Things in Entry), such property cannot be granted over until the action ordered by the competent forum of law is completed; and

(vi) The status of an Object being treated as a Thing dissolves when purchased, sold, bound or granted through a special form of agreement known as a Covenant Contract, also known simply as a Contract.

A member of the Homo Sapien species can never be attributed the Form of a Thing. Any law, precept or decree that attributes the Form of a Thing to one or more members of the Homo Sapien species is automatically null and void from the beginning.