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immovable

immovable : incapable of being moved see also immovable property at property n : an item of immovable property (as land, standing timber, or a building) [a manufactured home placed upon a lot or tract of land shall be an "Louisiana Revised Statutes"] ;also : an interest or right (as a servitude) in an item of immovable property [a predial servitude is an incorporeal "Louisiana Civil Code"] often used in pl. compare movable ...


Immovability

The quality or state of being immovable fixedness steadfastness as immovability of a heavy body immovability of purpose...


Immovable

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....


Immovable property

Immovable property, things rooted in the earth as in the case of trees and shrubs, are immovable pro-perty both within the General Clauses Act and the Transfer of Property Act, but in the latter, 'standing timber', 'growing crop' and 'grass' though rooted in earth are not included, Mahadeo v. State of Bombay AIR 1959 SC 735 (740): (1959) Supp 2 SCR 339. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(26)]Includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growing crops nor grass. [Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), s. 2 (6)]Trees are regarded as part of land because they are attached and rooted in the earth, Suresh Chand v. Kundan, (2001) 10 SCC 221 (224).Immovable property shall include land, benefits to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastene...


Urban immovable property

Urban immovable property, the expression 'urban' immovable property' may mean 'land and buildings', or 'buildings' or 'land'. It would take in lands of every description, i.e., agricultural land, urban land or any other kind and it necessarily includes vacant land, Union of India v. Valluri Basavaiah Choudhary, AIR 1979 SC 1415 (1425): (1979) 3 SCR 324....


immovable property

immovable property see property ...


Immovable

Incapable of being moved firmly fixed fast used of material things as an immovable foundation...


Immovableness

Quality of being immovable...


Immovably

In an immovable manner...


Fair market value

Fair market value.--(i) in relation to any immovable property transferred by way of sale or exchange, being immovable property of the nature referred to in sub-clause (i) of clause (e), means the price that the immovable property would ordinarily fetch on sale in the open market on the date of execution of the instrument of transfer of such property;(ii) in relation to any immovable property transferred by way of lease, being immovable property of the nature referred to in sub-clause (i) of clause (e), means the premium that such transfer would ordinarily fetch in the open market on the date of execution of the instrument of transfer of such property, if the consideration for such transfer had been by way of premium only;(iii) in relation to any immovable property transferred, being immovable property of the nature referred to in sub-clause (ii) of clause (e), means the consideration in the form of money that such transfer would ordinarily fetch in the open market on the date of the tr...


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