Article 415Immovable Property

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

works which may 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, pigeon-houses, beehives, fish ponds or

breeding places of similar nature, in case their owner has

placed 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 river, lake, or coast;

(10) Contracts for public works, and servitudes and other

real rights over immovable property. (334a)

CHAPTER 2 Movable Property