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Incorporeal

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.