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Law Dictionary: Tangible Property

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Property, either real or personal, capable of being possessed; such as is capable of being apprehended by the senses, which is accessible, identifiable, etc., see 228 S.W. 2d 882; 147 N.Y.S. 465, 469. "Tangible property" is corporeal, as distinguished from intangible property or incorporeal rights in property, such as franchises, copyrights, easements, etc. See 57 P. 2d 1022, 1028. For taxation purposes, "tangible property" generally refers to personalty [personal property], and is that movable property which has a value of its own, rather than merely the evidence or representative of value, and which has a visible or substantial existence. See 307 U.S. 357.


Tangible property in law is, literally, anything which can be touched, and includes both real property (or, in civil law systems, immovable property) and personal property (or moveable property), and stands in distinction to intangible property.

In English law and some Commonwealth legal systems, items of tangible property are referred to as choses in possession (or a chose in possession in the singular).

However, some property, despite being physical in nature, is classified in many legal systems as intangible property rather than tangible property because the rights associated with the physical item are of far greater significance than the physical properties. Principally, these are documentary intangibles. For example, a promissory note is a piece of paper that can be touched, but the real significance is not the physical paper, but the legal rights which the paper confers, and hence the promissory note is defined by the legal debt rather than the physical attributes.

A unique category of property is money, which in some legal systems is treated as tangible property and in others as intangible property. Whilst most countries legal tender is expressed in the form of intangible property ("The Treasury of Country X hereby promises to pay to the bearer on demand..."), in practice bank notes are now rarely ever redeemed in any country, which has led to bank notes and coins being classified as tangible property in most modern legal systems.



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