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fixture: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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fixture1 CONSTRUCTLegal fixtureBLACKBURN · ANNEXATION

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Property law

personal property so attached to land or a building that the law treats it as part of the real property.

In property law a fixture is an item of personal property that has become so attached to land or a building that the law treats it as part of the real property itself, so that it passes with the land on a sale rather than staying with the person who installed it. The classic statement is Blackburn J's judgment in Holland v Hodgson (1872), which set out two tests: the degree of annexation, meaning how firmly the object is fixed, and the object of annexation, meaning whether it was attached to improve the land or only to enjoy the thing itself. The referent here is a legal status that a thing acquires once it joins the realty, decided by a court, and it has nothing to do with a scheduled match, a device that clamps a workpiece, or an electric lamp housing.[2][1]

Unit
A single attached object judged to have become part of the land
Recovery means
A tenant may lawfully remove certain trade or ornamental fixtures before quitting, but a true fixture passes with the land
Measured by
Determined by a court weighing the degree and the object of annexation, not by any physical scale

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References

  1. Holland v Hodgson (1872). Law Reports 7 Common Pleas, 328 (Blackburn J.).
  2. Megarry, R., & Wade, H. W. R. (1984). The law of real property (5th ed.). Stevens. ISBN 9780420470300

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