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Aei Income & Growth Fund XXII Ltd Partnership – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/19 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 11/14/19, at 12:31pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/19   ·   Accession #:  1326321-19-68   ·   File #:  0-24003

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

11/14/19  Aei Income & Growth Fund XXII LP  10-Q        9/30/19   30:1.2M                                   AEI Income & Gro… 26 LLC

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    173K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
 4: EX-32       Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     14K 
16: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     66K 
25: R2          Balance Sheet                                       HTML     65K 
21: R3          Balance Sheet (Parentheticals)                      HTML     19K 
11: R4          Statement of Income                                 HTML     51K 
17: R5          Statement of Cash Flows                             HTML     61K 
26: R6          Statement of Changes in Partners' Capital           HTML     47K 
22: R7          Basis of Accounting                                 HTML     14K 
12: R8          Organization                                        HTML     20K 
15: R9          Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements          HTML     16K 
13: R10         Real Estate Investments                             HTML     18K 
18: R11         Payable to AEI Fund Management, Inc.                HTML     14K 
28: R12         Partners' Capital                                   HTML     16K 
23: R13         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     15K 
14: R14         Accounting Policies, by Policy (Policies)           HTML     25K 
19: R15         Organization (Details)                              HTML     29K 
29: R16         Real Estate Investments (Details)                   HTML     57K 
24: R17         Partners' Capital (Details)                         HTML     44K 
27: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     43K 
30: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     25K 
 5: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- aei22-20190930                      XML    232K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- aei22-20190930_cal              XML     56K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- aei22-20190930_def               XML    220K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- aei22-20190930_lab                    XML    355K 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- aei22-20190930_pre             XML    218K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- aei22-20190930                        XSD     51K 
20: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001326321-19-000068-xbrl      Zip     40K

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