Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

CHAPTER FIRST
IMMOVABLES

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    334.   Property is immovable either by its nature or by its destination, or by reason of the object to which it is attached, or lastly by determination of law.

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    335.   Lands, steam-mills, water-mills, wind-mills and buildings are immovable by their nature.

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    336.   Growing trees, crops and fruits are also immovable, but become movable when severed from the soil.

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    337.   Movable things which a proprietor has placed on his or her real property for a permanency or which he or she has incorporated therewith, are immovable by their destination so long as they remain there.

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    Thus, within these restrictions, the following and other like objects are immovable:

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      1.     Presses, boilers, stills, vats and tuns;

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      2.     All utensils necessary for working forges, mills and other manufactories.

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    Manure, and the straw and other substances intended for manure, are likewise immovable by destination.

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      3.     All cattle, and all carts, cranks and other implements employed in the working of an estate.

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    338.   Those things are considered as being attached for a permanency which are placed by the proprietor and fastened with iron and nails, imbedded in plaster, lime or cement, or which cannot be removed without breakage, or without destroying or deteriorating that part of the property to which they are attached.

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    Mirrors, pictures and other ornaments are considered to have been placed permanently when without them the part of the room they cover would remain incomplete or imperfect.

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    339.   Rights of emphyteusis, of usufruct of immovable things, of use and habitation, servitudes, and rights or actions which tend to obtain possession of an immovable, are immovable by reason of the objects to which they are attached.

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    340.   All movable property of which the law ordains or authorises the conversion into immovable property becomes immovable by determination of law either absolutely or for certain purposes. Also the monies produced by the redemption of constituted rents which belong to minors are immovable.

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    Sums accruing to a minor from the sale of his or her immovables during his or her minority, remain immovable so long as the minority lasts.

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    The law declares to be also immovable all sums given by ascendants to their children, in contemplation of marriage, to be used in the purchase of real estate.