Bruckman’s Estate, 195 Pa
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
363, 45 Atl. 1078; Atlanta v. Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Co., (C. C.) 101 Fed. 907. That kind of property which usually consists of things temporary and movable, but includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendible to the heirs at law. 2 Kent, Comm. 340. Personal property is divisible into (1) corporeal personal property, which includes movable and _ tangible things, such as animals, ships, furniture, merchandise, etc.; and (2) incorporeal personal property, which consists of such rights as personal annuities, stocks, shares, patents, and copyrights. Sweet.—Private property, as protected from being taken for public uses, is such property as arp absolutely to an individual, and of which he has the exclusive right of disposition; property of a specific, fixed and tangible nature, capable of being had in pos- Session and transmitted to another, such as houses, lands. and chattels. Homochitto River Com’rs v. Withers, 20 Miss. 21. 64 Am. Dec. 126; Scranton v. Wheeler, 179 U. S. 141, 21
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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