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Corporeal Property
Corporeal property consists of tangible, physical things that can be touched and occupied, including land, buildings, and fixtures attached to land. It contrasts with incorporeal property, which is intangible rights such as easements or licenses.
Exam context
Classify the asset: if you can touch the land or building, it is corporeal. Incorporeal interests include easements, profits, and licenses that affect land without being physical objects.
Physical vs intangible interests
Fee simple land, houses, and permanently attached plumbing are corporeal. An easement appurtenant granting passage across a neighbor's lot is incorporeal because it is a right, not physical substance. Both types can be bought, sold, or inherited under different legal rules.
Fixtures and annexation
Items that began as personal property may become corporeal real property when annexed to land by method, adaptation, or intent. Trade fixtures installed by a tenant may remain personal property if removed before lease end. Exams test classification for taxation and financing collateral.
Examples
Office building
A downtown tower and the land beneath it are corporeal property subject to ad valorem taxation as real estate.
Utility easement
A power line easement across a farm is incorporeal even though poles stand on the land; the right to maintain lines is separate from ownership of the soil.
Keep studying
Related terms
- Bundle of rightsOwnership sticks that can be separated from physical land.
- Chattel mortgageSecurity interest in personal property collateral.
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Sources
- Cornell LII: property(Cornell Legal Information Institute)