Book II: Property and the various changes in ownership

Property is immovable, or by its nature, or by its destination, or by the object to which it applies.

Land and buildings are immovable by their nature.

Wind or water mills, attached to pillars and forming part of the building, are also immovable by their nature.

Crops hanging by the roots and the fruits of trees not yet gathered are similarly immovable. As soon as the grains are cut and the fruits detached, though not removed, they are movable. If only part of the crop is cut, that part alone is movable.

Ordinary cuttings of coppiced or mature woodland put into regulated cuttings only become movable as and when the trees are felled.

Animals which the owner of the land delivers to the farmer or sharecropper for cultivation, whether valued or not, are subject to the regime of immovables as long as they remain attached to the land by the effect of the agreement. Those which he gives for livestock to others than the farmer or sharecropper are subject to the regime of movables.

Pipes used to conduct water into a house or other inheritance are immovable and form part of the land to which they are attached.

Objects which the owner of land has placed there for the service and operation of that land are immovable by destination. Animals which the owner of land has placed there for the same purpose are subject to the regime of immovables by destination. Thus, are immovable by destination, when they have been placed by the owner for the service and operation of the business: Arable utensils; Seeds given to farmers…