Incorporeal

Without body; not of material nature; the opposite of "corporeal," (q. v.)

— Incorporeal chattels. A class of incorporeal rights growing out of or incident to things personal; such as patent-rights and copyrights. 2 Steph. Comm. 72. See Boreel v. New York, 2 Sandf. (N. Y.) 559.

— Incorporeal hereditaments. See Hereditaments.

— Incorporeal property. In the civil law. That which consists in legal right merely. The same as choses in action at common law.

— Incorporeal things. In the civil law. Things which can neither be seen nor touched, such as consist in rights only, such as the mind alone can perceive. Inst. 2, 2; Civ. Code La. 1900, art. 460; Sullivan v. Richardson, 33 Fla. 1, 14 South. 692.