Movable

That which can be changed in place, as movable property; or in time, as movable feasts or terms of court See Wood v. George, 6 Dana (Ky.) 343 ; Strong v. White, 19 Conn. 245; Goddard v. Winchell, 86 Iowa, 71, 52 N. W. 1124, 17 In R. A. 788, 41 Am. St Rep. 481.

— Movable estate. A term equivalent to "personal estate" or "personal property." Den v. Sayre, 3 N. J. Law, 187.

— Movable freehold. A term applied by Lord Coke to reni property which is capable of being increased or diminished by natural causes; as where the owner of seashore acquires or loses land as the waters recede or approach. See Holman v. Hodges, 112 Iowa, 714, 84 N. W. 950, 58 In R. A. 673, 84 Am. St Rep. 367.

That which can be changed in place, ag movable property; or in time, as movable feasts or terms of court.

v. Heritable. Moy,/-. Me; I. Moyen,//-. Mean; intermediate; middle. Pur moyen: by means of. (v. Bastard eignf): the eldest legitimate son. Multa conceduntur per obliquum quae non conceduntur indirecto: many things are allowed indirectly wliioli are not allowed directly. Multa in jure communi contra rationem disputandi, pro communi utilitate introduota sunt: many things have been introduced into the common law for the public good, which are inconsistent with sound reason.

That which can be changed in place, as movable property; or in time, as movable feasts or terms of court. Movable property, or movable^. Property which can be carried from place to place. In the French law and law of Louisiana, ' ' movables ' ' is used more technically than under common-law systems. Movable and immovable is one of the commonest, because the most apparent and natural, of the modern divisions of things, as the subjects of property. It is not coincident, however, with the historical divisions which have obtained most extensively in ancient or in modern times; for it does not agree with the Roman law division into res mancipi and res nee mancipi (agricultural and non-agricultural), on the one hand, nor with the English law division into lands and chattels, or real and personal property, on the other. For example, a leasehold house is an immovable, aixd yet is personal property; and a dignity or title of honor is a movable, and yet is real property. Nevertheless, just as the division into res mancipi and res nee mancipi gradually gave way before the industrial development of Roman greatness, so also the division into real and personal property is more and more giving way before the advancing diversities of English wealth. For example, to be such in the interpretation clause of most modern statutes. But the division into movable and immovable, finding its basis in nature, promises to be permanent; and it may grow to be as fertile in consequences as the older divisions have been. Brown. The law attaches no artificial or technical meaning to " movable property " in a legacy. It must be construed according to its popular signification and the testator's probable intent. Movable, applied to property, ordinarily signifies capable of being put out of one place into another; it implies that the property is susceptible of locomotion or change of place. Hence "movable property " includes only such as is corporeal and tangible; and a bequest of testator's movable property will not pass a judgment due to him. There is no rule that movable, in such connection, is equivalent to " personal." Personal property includes movables; but movables are only one kind of personalty. Strong v. White, 19 Conn. 2.38, 245. A bequest of all the testator's " in-door movables " does not pass a promissory note. The word movables, standing alone, comprehends personal property generally, and would include rights in action; but, when qualified by the adjective "in-door" (and particularly when contrasted with another bequest of testator's "out-door movables "), it cannot embrace rights in action, for these have no locality, but follow the person of the owner. Penniman v. French, 17 Pick. 404. A devise of " wearing-apparel, household furniture, plate, linen, books, and every movable," will not include debts due to the testatrix. Jackson v. Vanderspreigle, 2 DaU. 142. A will giving "all my movable goods and chattels " will not pass bond-debts due to testator. Sparke v. Denne, 1 Wm. Jones, 225. A bequest of all the testator's " movable property" will include slaves, unless a different intent is expressed by the will. Whitehurst v. Barker, 2 Ired. Eq. 292.