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It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to personal property that can be moved, as opposed to real estate. Example: "The estate included various movables such as furniture, artwork, and vehicles."
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movables
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Plural of movable
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All three systems hold as a basic principle that one cannot transfer more rights in a thing than one has ("Nemo dat quod non habet; nemo plus iuris ad alium transferre potest quam ipse habet"), but all three systems recognize numerous exceptions to this principle, particularly in the case of movables.
The only classification of goods is the basic one of immovables (which are defined as having a fixed place in space) and movables (which include all goods that are not immovables).
In 1965 movables owned by either spouse before marriage were excluded from the community fund, which now, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, consists only of the fruits of the spouses' work or frugality during marriage.
In civil law the distinction between conveyances of movables and conveyances of immovables is far less important than it is in Anglo-American law, whereas the distinction between sales and gifts of immovables is more important than it is in Anglo-American law.
In early Roman law, two years of continuous possession established title in the case of land, one year in the case of movables.
Whereas inter vivos sales and inter vivos gifts of movables are treated quite differently, the conveyancing aspects of inter vivos sales and inter vivos gifts of immovables are quite similar.
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Most important, the ban on mortgaging farmland will remain.Again according to the draft, a person would be considered the owner of real estate if his ownership was registered with the government, or of movable property if he was in possession of it.
They had to assume all the debts of the old state farm and were obliged to buy all its movable equipment at market rates, paying 40% of the cost up-front.
The new architecture also helps the less technically minded to shape their own clouds, using such tools as Iceberg's.Just as for the industrialisation of data centres, there is a historic precedent for this shift in architecture: the invention of movable type in the 15th century.
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