IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY
Art. 414. All things which are or may be the object of appropriation
are considered either:
(1) Immovable or real property; or
(2) Movable or personal property. (333)
PROPERTY
As an object, is that which is, or may be appropriated
Under the CC, thing and property are used synonymously
—technically though, thing is of broader scope than property
IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
Art. 415. The following are immovable property:
(1) Land, buildings, roads and constructions of all kinds
adhered to the soil;
(2) Trees, plants, and growing fruits, while they are attached to
the land or form an integral part of an immovable;
(3) Everything attached to an immovable in a fixed
manner, in such a way that it cannot be separated therefrom
without breaking the material or deterioration of the object;
(4) Statues, reliefs, paintings or other objects for use or
ornamentation, placed in buildings or on lands by the owner of the
immovable in such a manner that it reveals the intention to attach
them permanently to the tenements;
(5) Machinery, receptacles, instruments or implements
intended by the owner of the tenement for an industry or
work
whichmay be carried on in a building or on a piece of land,
and
which tend directly to meet the needs of the said industry or
works;
(6) Animal houses, pigeonhouses, beehives, fish ponds or
breeding places of similar nature, in case their owner has pl
aced them or preserves them with the intention to have them
permanently attached to the land, and forming a permanent part of
it; the animals in these places are included;
(7) Fertilizer actually used on a piece of land;
(8) Mines, quarries, and slag dumps, while the matter thereof
forms part of the bed, and waters either running or stagnant;
(9) Docks and structures
which, though floating, are intended
by their nature and object to remain at a fixed place on a r
iver, lake, or coast;
(10) Contracts for public works, and servitudes and other real
rights over immovable property. (334a)