257. Mixed actions are those which are brought for the specific recovery of lands, like real actions, but comprise, joined with this claim, one for damages in respect of such property ; such as the action of waste, where, in addition to the recovery of the place wasted the demandant claims damages; the writ of entry, in which, by statute, a demand of mesne profits may be joined; and dower, in which a claim for detention may be included. 48 Me. 255. In the civil law. An action in which some specific thing was demanded, and also some ae obligation claimed to be per formed; or, in other words, an action which proceeded both in rem and in personam. Inst.