Buyers' Information

DISTINCTION BETWEEN MEUBLES AND IMMEUBLES
(Ordinance passed 18th January 1852 (III/231)

1. Things are either movable or immovable: s.6,
2. The following are immovable:,
   1. Land: s.5,
   2. Things incorporated in the land: s.6, e.g. houses and buildings, mills, trees and shrubs (except those in a nursery),
   3. Growing crops and unpicked fruit: s.7,
   4. Gutters, drains and service pipes: s.13,
   5. Aftermath and wood until cut: ss.11 &12,
   6. Things permanently attached to land or buildings: s.14,
   7. The following, when installed for the amenity or exploitation of the realty (s.15),
      • Kitchen table
      • Green bed (bed of straw)
      • Shutters
      • Steam engines
      • Boilers, stills, vats and barrels
      • Factory equipment
      • Manures
   8. 1. Usufruct of realty
      2. Real servitudes
      3. Real actions: s.16
      4. Rentes: s.17
   9. All things situate outside the island which are immovable according to the law of the land where situate.
3. The following are movable:
   1. Things in general which may be moved from one place to another: s.4,
   2. Although moveable still growing the following are deemed movable from the Saint Jean, s.8:-
      • Flax and hemp,
      • Fern,
      • Hay and corn,
      • Peas and beans.
   3. Early potatoes are deemed movables from the 1st June (Ord.1888,4/299),
   4. Greenhouse tomatoes and grapes are deemed movables from the 15th July (Ord 1888).
   5. Similarly the following are deemed to be movable from 1st September: s.9:-
      • Apples and pears,
      • Grapes,
      • Parsnips,
      • Turnips,
      • Beetroots,
      • Carrots,
      • Late Potatoes,
      • Late peas and beans.
   6. The following are deemed movables from the 29th September (s.10):-
      1. Willows which are cut annually,
      2. Hedge furze, every other year,
      3. Field furze, every third year.
   7. Arrears of rente and rent are movables when due: ss.18 &19.
   8. Obligations and shares relating to money or movable objects are themselves movable: s.20.
   9. The right of a tenant to the property let is movable.