Chattel or fixture?
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The document discusses the law of fixtures and how it determines whether objects attached to land, such as machinery, are considered real property or personal property. It provides examples of items nailed, bolted, or resting on land and how those attachment methods could influence whether they are considered fixtures or chattels. The document also references two legal cases, Geita Sebea v The Territory of Papua and Belgrave Nominees v Barlin Scott Air Conditioning, that relate to the purpose of annexation test in determining if a fixture is real or personal property.
Chattel or fixture?
- 1. When is a chattel not a chattel? LA2015 Monday, week 2, 2014
- 3. The law of fixtures changes the character of some physical objects placed on land from personal property to real property
- 4. Whatever is attached to the soil becomes part of the soil Image: http://stlbridge.com/category/projects/pile-driving-deep-foundations/
- 5. Nailed to the floor: chattel or fixture?
- 9. Image: creative commons licence. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney_Monorail_Demolition.jpg
- 10. Resting on own weight 息 Copyright 2010 Roy Tennant, FreeLargePhotos.com
- 11. Geita Sebea v The Territory of Papua (1941) 67 CLR 544 Image: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch/asearch? name=HESTON&gazetteer=heston&POPULATED_PLACE=HESTON&LONDON_BOROU GH=HOUNSLOW&searchCountry=3
- 12. Purpose of Annexation Test Belgrave Nominees v Barlin Scott Air Conditioning (1984) VR 947 Image: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/687710-death-defying- workman-climbs-out-of-window-to-fix-air-conditioner/
- 13. Image: Colin Cook http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-12/success-for-salt- resistent-wheat-crop/3883398
- 14. Real or personal property?