Title I - Property Classification (According To Mobility)
Title I - Property Classification (According To Mobility)
Title I - Property Classification (According To Mobility)
Requisites:
1. Utility
2. Individuality/Substantivity
3. Susceptibility of appropriation
Real Rights
1. no passive subject claim against whole world
2. object is corporeal thing (obligation)
3. creates juridical relations through mode & title
4. extinguished through loss or destruction of thing
Personal Rights
1. Passive and active subject
2. Object is an intangible thing (specific thing)
3. Creates juridical relations through title
4. Not extinguished through loss or destruction of thing
Immovable property
1. By nature cannot be moved from place to place because of their
nature
a) land, buildings & all kinds of constructions adhered to soil
b) mine, quarries
2. By incorporation essentially movables but attached to an
immovable that it becomes an integral part of it
trees, plants & growing fruits adhered to soil
everything attached to an immovable that it will break if
separated
statues, paintings if intended by owner to be integral part of
immovable
animal houses if intended by owner to become permanently
attached to immovable
3. By destination movables but purpose is to partake of an integral
part of an immovable
machinery placed by owner of the tenement & tend directly to meet
the needs of such works/industry
fertilizers when applied to soil
docks & floating structures
4. By analogy/by law contracts for public works, servitude & other
real rights over immovable property
Movable property
1. susceptible of appropriation that are not included in enumeration
in immovable
2. immovable that are designated as movable by special provision of
law
3. forces of nature brought under control by science
4. things w/c can be transported w/o impairment of real property
where they are fixed
5. obligations which involve demandable sums (credits)
6. shares of stocks of agricultural, commercial & industrial entities
although they may have real estate
Classification of Movables
1. consumable cannot be utilized w/o being consumed
2. non-consumable
Definitions of Ownership
Independent and general right of a person to control a thing
particularly in his possession, enjoyment, disposition, and recovery,
subject to no restrictions except those imposed by the state or
private persons, without prejudice to the provisions of the law.
Power of a person over a thing for purposes recognized by law &
within the limits established by law
Attributes:
1. Jus possidendi right to possess
2. Jus utendi right to enjoy
3. Jus fruendi right to fruits
4. Jus abutendi right to use and abuse
5. Jus disponendi right to dispose
6. Jus vindicandi right to exclude others from possession of the
thing
2. immovable
Limitation on Ownership
1. general limitations for the benefit of the state (eminent domain,
police power, taxation)
2. specific limitations imposed by law (servitude, easements)
3. specific limitations imposed by party transmitting ownership (will,
contract)
4. limitations imposed by owner himself (voluntary servitude,
mortgages, pledges)
5. inherent limitations arising from conflicts with other similar rights
(contiguity of property)
6. owner cannot make use of a thing which shall injure/prejudice
rights of 3rd persons (neighbors)
7. acts in state of necessity law permits injury or destruction of
things owned by another provided this is necessary to avert a
greater danger (with right to indemnity vs. principle of unjust
enrichment)
8. true owner must resort to judicial process when thing is in
possession of another; law creates a disputable presumption of
ownership to those in actual possession
identify property
show that he has better title