IMMOVABLES, civil law. Things are movable or immovable. Immovables, res immobiles, are things in general, such as cannot move themselves or be removed from one place to another.
"Movables which are permanently physically attached or joined to an immovable without losing their individuality and without being incorporated with the immovable are immovables for as long as they remain there.
The heir of the heritable (i.e. real) property if one of the next of kin must collate with the next of kin if he wishes to share in the movables. Proximity of kin is reckoned in the same order as in the case of inheritance.
The legacy under an universal title is that by which a testator bequeaths a certain proportion of the effects of which the law permits him to dispose; e.g., a half, a third, all his immovables or all his movables, ...
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Scottish, law. Childrens part a third part of the defuncts free movables, debts deducted, if the wife survive, and a half if there be no relict. ... more
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more: the whole of which is comprehended under the general name of "chattels", which Coke says is a French word signifying goods - from the technical Latin catalla, which meant, primarily, beasts of husbandry, and, secondarily, all movables in ...
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