{"id":8912,"date":"2017-11-21T05:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8912"},"modified":"2018-01-04T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T06:37:21","slug":"movable-property","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=8912","title":{"rendered":"Movable Property – tangible or intangible property that is not land or buildings: can be moved or displaced"},"content":{"rendered":"

movable<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n[move<\/em>-ebl]
\nn<\/em>. (usu. pl.) (15c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Property that can be moved or displaced, such as personal goods; a tangible or intangible thing in which an interest constitutes personal property; specifically, anything that is not so attached to land as to be regarded as a part of it as determined by local law.<\/strong> \u2014 aka movable property<\/strong><\/em><\/span>; movable thing<\/strong><\/em><\/span>. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. That which can be changed in place, as movable property; or in time, as movable feasts or terms of court.<\/strong> See Wood v. George. 0 Dana (Ky.) 343; Strong v. White, 19 Conn. 245; Goddard v. Winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 L. R. A. 7SS, 41 Am. St Rep. 481. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Referring to that which may be moved from one place to another.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

movables<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Personal property; movables.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from David M. Walker’s\u00a0The Oxford Companion to Law<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1980):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cMovables and immovables.\u00a0 The main distinction drawn in later Roman law and modern systems based thereon between kinds of things subject to ownership and possession.\u00a0 While basically the distinction corresponds to everyday conceptions, assigning animals and vehicles to the former and land and buildings to the latter category, particular things may be assigned to one category rather than the other for reasons of convenience.\u00a0 Thus, in French law, farm implements and animals are immovables.\u00a0 The distinction is also important, in international private law, more so than that between real and personal . . . . Thus, land held on lease is personal property by English law for historical reason, but in international private law it is a right in immovable property.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [4]<\/span><\/p>\n

intangible movable<\/span><\/a> – a physical thing that can be moved but that cannot be touched in the usual sense, such as a legal right, light, electricity, and radioactive waves.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

chattel<\/a><\/span> – movable, tangible property.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n