Movables
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Such subjects>of property as attend a man’s person wherever he goes, in contradistinction to things immovable. Things movable by their nature are such as may be carried from one place to another, po Yer, as Inanimate t Mngs. So in the civil ness; State V. Lynch (Ohio) 102 N. E. 670. law mobilia; but this term did not properly The registered trademark of a periodical Include Uving movables, which were termed (“Nick Carter”) Is not infringed by the use moventia. Calvlnus, Lex. But these words of “Nick Carter” as the name of a character mobilia and moventia are also used synony- in a moving picture; Atlas Mfg. Co. v. Street, mously, and In the general sense of “mova- 204 Fed. 898, 122 0. C. A. 568; but moving bles.” Ibid. Movables are further distin- pictures and dramatization are cognate guished into such as are in possession, or forms of reproduction and a copyright of the which are in the power of the owner, as a latter includes the former; id. horse in actual use, a piece of furniture In An exhibition of a series of photographs a man’s own house; and such as are in the of persons and things arranged on films as possession of another, and can only be re- moving pictures, and so depicting the princicovered by action, which are therefore said pal scenes of an author’s work as to tell the to be In action, as a debt But It has been story, is a dramatization of such work and held that movable property, In a legacy, the person producing the films and offering strictly includes only such as Is corporeal them for sale for exhibitions, even If not and tangible; not, therefore, rights in action, himself exhibiting them. Infringes the copyas Judgment or bond debts; Strong v. White, right of the author; Kalem Co. v. Harper 19 Conn. 238, 245; 1 Wm. Jones 225.
But Bros., 222 U. S. 65, 82 Sup. Ct. 20, 66 L. Ed. see Penniman v. French, 17 Pick. (Mass.) 92-, Ann. Cas. 1913A, 1286. 404, 28 Am. Dec. 309. See Personal Pbopeett; Pow. Mortg. Index; 2 Bla. Com. 384; MUHAMMADAN LAW.
See Mohamme- 2 Steph. Com. 26; 1 P. Wms. 267. dan Law. In a will, “movables” is used in its larg- MULATTO. A person born of one white est sense, but will not pass growing crops, and one black parent. Medway v. Natick, 7 nor building materials on ground; nor, as Mass. 88; State v. Scott, 1 Bailey, (S. C.) stated above, rights in action; 2 Wms. Exec. 270; Thurman v. State, 18 Ala. 276. See 1014; Humble v. Humble, 3 A. K. Marsh. Negro. (Ky.) 123; Jackson v. Vanderspreigle, 2 Properly a mulatto Is a person one of Dali. (U. S.) 142, 1 L. Ed. 323. See Mort- whose parents Is wholly black and the other gage. wholly white; but the word doe.s not always,