Movable Property

Article 416, Civil Code of the Philippines. The following things are deemed to be personal property:

1. Those movables susceptible of appropriation which are not included in the preceding article;
2. Real property which by any special provision of law is considered as personalty;
   
3. Forces of nature which are brought under control by science; and
   
4. In general, all things which can be transported from place to place without impairment of the real property to which they are fixed. (335a)

Article 417, Civil Code of the Philippines. The following are also considered as personal property:

1. Obligations and actions which have for their object movables or demandable sums; and
   
2. Shares of stock of agricultural, commercial and industrial entities, although they may have real estate. (336a)

Article 418, Civil Code of the Philippines. Movable property is either consummable or non-consummable. To the first class belong those movables which cannot be used in a manner appro­priate to their nature without their being consumed; to the second class belong all the others. (337)

1. Classification of Property
   
2. Immovable Property
   
3. Movable Property
   

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