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Corporeal is a thing that has a physical existence and is capable of being seen and touched. In reference to law, �corporeal� is used primarily in the context of property. Louisiana has a statute that defines corporeal and incorporeal. As per Louisiana Civil Code Article 461, "corporeals are things that have a body, whether animate or inanimate, and can be felt or touched." It can be both moveable and immovable, for example, land is an immovable corporeal and money is a movable corporeal property. On the other hand, incorporeals are things that have no physical appearance or body, "such as right of inheritance, servitudes, obligations and right of intellectual property."�

Under common law, corporeal hereditament is land and any permanent tangible objects on the land that can be inherited.�