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PROPERTY 203
TITLE ONE
NATURE AND KINDS OF PROPERTY
1 Property consists of the personal and real rights that
belong to a person.
2 Real rights relate to things or to rights.
CHAPTER I
MOVEABLES AND IMMOVEABLES
3 Property and things are moveable or immoveable.
4 Property and things are moveable unless the law provides
otherwise.
5 Immoveable things are land, the buildings and other
works incorporated therewith, and anything which is an
integral part of such land, buildings or works.
6 Plants and minerals are integral parts of the land as long
as they are not separated or extracted from it.
Nevertheless, harvests and fruits of plants are moveable
even when not separated from the land.
7 All things which are incorporated into an immoveable,
regardless of who has effected the incorporation, are integral
parts of the immoveable.
The same applies to all things which are physically
attached to an immoveable but which do not lose their
individuality, without prejudice to the existing rights of third
parties thereto.
8 When a thing which forms an integral part of an
immoveable is temporarily detached from it, such thing