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05; Property; real vs personal property

1995 No. 13:


Salvador, a timber concessionaire, built on his lot a warehouse where he
processes and stores his timber for shipment. Adjoining the warehouse is a furniture
factory owned by NARRAMIX of which Salvador is a majority stockholder.
NARRAMIX leased space In the warehouse where it placed its furniture-making
machinery.
1. How would you classify the furniture-making machinery as property under
the Civil Code? Explain.

2. Suppose the lease contract between Salvador and NARRAMIX stipulates


that at the end of the lease the machinery shall become the property of the lessor,
will your answer be the same? Explain.

Answer:
1. The furniture-making machinery is movable property because it was not
installed by the owner of the tenement. To become immovable under Art. 415 (5)
of the NCC, the machinery must be installed by the owner of the tenement.

Alternative Answer:
It depends on the circumstances of the case. If the machinery was attached
in a fixed manner, in such a way that it cannot be separated from the tenement
without breaking the material or causing deterioration thereof, It is Immovable
property [Art. 415 (3), NCC]. However, if the machinery can be transported from
place to place without Impairment of the tenement to which they were fixed, then it is
movable property. [Art. 416 (4), NCCJ

2. It is immovable property. When there is a provision in the lease contract


making the lessor, at the end of the lease, owner of the machinery installed by the
lessee, the said machinery is considered to have been installed by the lessor
through the lessee who acted merely as his agent. Having been installed by the
owner of the tenement, the machinery became immovable .under Art. 415 of the
NCC. (Davao Sawmill v. Castillo 61 Phil. 709)
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The furniture-making machinery should be considered real property under Art. 415(5) of the NCC
because it was not installed by the owner of the tenement; the lessee of the warehouse is
NARRAMIX, a coporation with personality separate and distinct from its shareholders

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