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Immovable

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Immovable, not to be forced from its place, the characteristic of things real, or land. The courts of one country in general have no jurisdiction over immovable situate out of that country, see British South Africa Co. v. Companhia de Mozambique, 1893 AC 602. Also in foreign systems of law a term of the capital division of things into movable and immovable instead of real and personal.

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