Incorporeal

Having no body or corpus; not material or tangible; not an object of sense, but existing solely in contemplation of law.

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.

Having no body, or corpus; not material, or tangible; not an object of sense, but existing only in contemplation of law^. Incorporeal chattels: a class of incorporeal rights growing out of, or incident to things personal. Incorporeal hereditament: in a large sense, any possession or subject of property, whether real or personal, capable of being transmitted to heirs, and not the object of the bodily senses; in a narrower sense, a right annexed to, or issuing out of, or exercisable within a corporeal hereditament, or land.

Without body; notoft material nature; the opposite of “corporeal,” (q. v)

See Corporeal.

that which has no body. Things incorporeal are those which are not the object of sense, which cannot be seen nor felt, but which we can easily conceive in the understanding, as rights, actions, successions, easements, and the like. Dig. lib. 6, t. 1; Ib. lib. 41, t. 1, 1. 43, § 1; Poth. Traité des choses, 2 INCORPOREAL HEREDITA-