Property in Relation to the Person to Whom it Belongs

 Art. 419, Civil Code of the Philippines. Property is either of public dominion or of private ownership.

 Art. 420, Civil Code of the Philippines. The following things are property of public dominion:

1. Those intended for public use, such as roads, canals, rivers, torrents, ports and bridges constructed by the State, banks, shores, roadsteads, and others of similar character;
2. Those which belong to the State, without being for public use, and are intended for some public service or for the development of the national wealth.

 Art. 421, Civil Code of the Philippines. All other property of the State, which is not of the character stated in the preceding article, is patrimonial property.

 Art. 422, Civil Code of the Philippines. Property of public dominion, when no longer intended for public use or for public service, shall form part of the patrimonial property of the State.

 Art. 423, Civil Code of the Philippines. The property of provinces, cities, and municipalities is divided into property for public use and patrimonial property.

 Art. 424, Civil Code of the Philippines. Property for public use, in the provinces, cities, and municipalities, consist of the provincial roads, city streets, municipal streets, the squares, fountains, public waters, promenades, and public works for public service paid for by said provinces, cities, or municipalities.

All other property possessed by any of them is patrimonial and shall be governed by this Code, without prejudice to the provisions of special laws.

 Art. 425, Civil Code of the Philippines. Property of private ownership, besides the patrimonial property of the State, provinces, cities, and municipalities, consists of all property belonging to private persons, either individually or collectively.

 Art. 426, Civil Code of the Philippines. Whenever by provisions of the law, or an individual declaration, the expression "immovable things or property," or "movable things or property," is used, it shall be deemed to include, respectively, the things enumerated in Chapter 1 and in Chapter 2.

Whenever the word "muebles," or "furniture," is used alone, it shall be deemed to include money, credits, commercial securities, stocks and bonds, jewelry, scientific or artistic collections, books, medals, arms, clothings, horses or carriages and their accessories, grains, liquids and merchandise, or other things which do not have as their principal object the furnishing or ornamenting objects of a building, except where from the context of the law, or the individual declaration, the contrary clearly appears.

Read comments for these provisions by Justice Vitug, Civil Law, Vol. 2, pp. 7 - 10 .

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