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Article 256
Des Immeubles
Titre XI:
De la Distinction et de la Nature des Biens
(On the Distinction and Nature of Property)
Chapitre I:
Des Immeubles
(On Immovable Property)
Les denrées et vivres déjà récoltés et emmagasinés sur les habitations, sont meubles.
Life lesson:
Once the crop is cut and stored, it becomes movable — severed from the earth, it is free to be sold, traded, or seized. The harvest transforms nature into commerce.
Notes:
Harvested and stored crops transition from immovable to movable. The act of severance from the land changes legal classification. 'Habitations' = plantations in Haitian legal usage.