Immovables

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In civil law. Property itself or be removed. Poth. des Choses, § 1.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Immovable property.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Civil Law. Property which, from its nature, destination, or the object to which it is applied, cannot move itself or be removed. Pothier, des Choaea, § 1; Clef dea Loia Rom, Immeublea.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil law. Property which, from its nature, destination or the object to which it is applied, cannot move itself or be removed. Immovable things are, in general, such as cannot either move themselves or be removed from one place to another. But this definition, strictly speaking, is applicable only to such things as are immovable by their own nature, and not to such as. are so only by the disposition of the law. Civ. Code La. art 462; Mti Carmel Fruit Co. v. Webster, 140 Cal. 183, 73 Pac. 826; Sullivan v. Richardson, 33 Fla. 1, 14 South. 692.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the civil law. Propty which, from its nature, destination, or the object to which it is applied, cannot move jtself, or be removed, Immovable things are, in general, such as cannot either move themselves or be removed from ene place to another. But this definition, strictly speaking, is applicable only to such things as are immovable by their own nature, and not to such as are so only by the disposition of the Jaw. Civil Code La, art. 462.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Movable. JMMITNlTY.s Exemption from a duty, obligation, penalty, or service, which the law requires of citizens in general. Freedom from what otherwise would be a duty or burden.* The Fourteenth Amendment secures immunity from Inequality of legal protection, as to life, liberty, or property.* Immunity from taxation, as of the property of a railroad corporation, not being a franchise, but a personal privilege, is not transferable even under a decree of foreclosure.* See further PBrvrLEOE, 1; Prohibition, 1; Tax, 2.