Legal Provisions of Section 22 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Movable property:
The definition is not exhaustive as is clear from the use of the words ‘are intended to include’. The expression ‘movable property’ has been defined in some other Acts also including the General Clauses Act, 1897 vide section 3 (36). The definitions are different and are limited to the respective statutes wherein defined. It has been held that the word ‘property’ has a much wider meaning in the Code.
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Corporeal property
Corporeal property means property which can be perceived by the senses. The Supreme Court has held in Avlar Singli v. State? that electricity is not a movable property. Fish is a movable property, and so is an idol. Human body, whether living or dead, is not a movable property but a mummy is.
Land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth
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The definition makes a distinction between land and earth. Land and things attached to the earth are immovable property. Such land and things when detached from the earth become movable property. Similarly, so long as something is fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, it is immovable property. But as soon as the same is unfastened, it becomes a movable property.