Legal Classification of Goods and Property

Legal Classification of Goods

Things: Tangible objects which can be valued.

Goods: Objects which can be measured in terms of money.

The Civil Code classifies goods following a double criteria:

  • In Isolation or in Themselves:

    • Real Property (Immovable Objects):

      • Real estates due to their inherent nature.
      • Real estates due to their physical accession.
      • Accessories integral to real estates, not physically attached.
      • Documents or instruments pertaining to real estates.
    • Chattels or Movables (Movable Objects):

      • Livestock
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Core Principles of the Brazilian Constitution: An In-Depth Look

Core Principles of the Brazilian Constitution (Article 1 of CF/88)

The fundamental principles are rules that contain the most important values that inform the development of the Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (CF/88). They have three relevant functions:

  • Grounding: They establish all the basic rules, guidelines, and the entire system of constitutional norms.
  • Interpretative: They allow for the understanding of the scope and true purpose of the law at the time of application.
  • Supplementary:
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Legal Aspects of Marriage, Family, and Civil Status

Marriage and Legal Capacity:

  • The object of marriage is the union of two individuals.
  • People with AIDS can marry.
  • Individuals under 15 years of age cannot marry.
  • Three witnesses are required for a valid marriage.
  • This chapter is not required to enter marriage.

Societies recognize marriages, and legal personality is acquired from conception.

Death and Legal Authority:

  • The forensic medical authority certifies death.
  • The judicial authority orders the adjournment of a death certificate in a crime.
  • The ministerial
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Appeals in Social Court: Supplication, Cassation, Unification

Supplication

Supplication: Social-court decisions against the court of first instance. Not all decisions are contested, only:

  • Judgments: Not all of them, such as the holidays, no.
  • Orders: Only three:
  1. The judge is not responsible for the person who made the decision against the appeal made to replace the order.
  2. Inhibition requirement stating that no issue in this appeal if a supplication is filed. Implementing the processes of replacement.
  3. The judgment filed decides the appeal if it is able to enforce
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Water Rights Acquisition and Recognition in Chile

School of Law Course: UDP Water Rights First Half 2010

Second Summary

I: Distinction Between Given Rights and Rights Recognized

When we talked about the budgets of water use rights, we said there were three:

  • The public domain on the water (an inherent part of national property for public use).
  • The allocation, this is the act of the relevant concession State organ (DGA), which will give a title.
  • The title of the act resulting concessions.

We said that this title could take various forms and, paradoxically,

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Understanding Property Types in Brazilian Civil Law

Movable Property

  • By Movable Type: Those that can be moved without the occurrence of the destruction of its substance or its social-economic function is lost.
  • Livestock (Art. 8, Part I, CC): Goods moving under its own organic, susceptible of ownership (any animal, but here in Brazil primarily cat, dog, ox, etc.. Because they are assigned values).
  • Movable by determination of the law (Art. 83 CC): The energies of economic value (electric, wind, etc.), any right in rem in movable property (pledge),
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