Movables
(Ref: John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and the Several States of the American Union, Childs & Peterson, c1856.)
MOVABLES, estates. Such subjects of property as attend a man's person wherever he goes, in contradistinction to things immovable. (q.v.)
Things movable by their nature are such
as may be carried from one place to another, whether they move themselves, as cattle, or
cannot be removed without an extraneous power, as inanimate things. Movables are further
distinguished into such as are in possession, or which are in the power of the owner, as,
a horse in actual use, a piece of furniture in a man's own house; or such as are in the
possession of another, and can only be recovered by action, which are therefore said to be
in action, as a debt. Vide art. Personal Property, and Fonb. Eq. Index, h.t.; Pow. Mortg.
Index, h.t.; 2 Bl. Com. 884; Civ. Code of Lo. art. 464 to 472; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 462.
