Right. Real in this sense is opposed to personal. So you have legal distinctions between real action and personal action, in personem and in rem etc. It's tied

Right. Real in this sense is opposed to personal. So you have legal distinctions between real action and personal action, in personem and in rem etc. It's tied to the fundamental distinction between a person and a thing, between who and what. What's not "real" in this sense isn't necessarily not "real" in the familiar everyday sense.