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# 15. Civil Code

Art. 82. Movable property is property capable of self-movement, or of removal by an external force, without alteration of its substance or its economic-social purpose.

Art. 83. The following are deemed movable property for legal purposes: I - energies that have economic value; II - real rights over movable objects and the corresponding actions; III - personal rights of a patrimonial nature and the respective actions.

Art. 1,267. Ownership of things is not transferred by legal transactions before delivery. 

Sole paragraph. Delivery is presumed when the transferor continues to possess the thing by means of constitutum possessorium; when the transferor assigns to the acquirer the right to restitution of the thing, which is in the possession of a third party; or when the acquirer is already in possession of the thing at the time of the legal transaction.