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Section 22 — “Movable property”

As in force on 30 November 2008.

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  1. 30 March 1987 Enacted
  2. 30 November 2008 Revised edition
  3. 1 January 2020 Act 15 of 2019
  4. 17 August 2026 Latest
Revised edition in force 30 November 2008

The text below is this provision as reproduced in the Revised Edition that came into force on this date. A revised edition consolidates the law without changing its substance, so editorial amendments — such as renumbering, updated citations and formatting — may have been made but are not shown as a redline.

22.“Movable property”

The words “movable property” are intended to include corporeal property of every description, except land and things attached to the earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth.

Illustration

Writings, relating to real or personal property or rights, are movable property.

[Indian PC 1860, s. 22]