Also known as: tangibles · tangibility · corporeal
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
Property or material that can be touched or perceived by the senses.
Tessa Takahashi enters Tara Tran's home and removes a gold watch from the dresser. The watch is tangible personal property that Tessa carries away with intent to keep permanently. The taking satisfies the elements of common-law larceny.
Travis Tate prepares handwritten notes summarizing witness interviews in anticipation of trial. The notes constitute tangible material prepared for litigation. Work-product protection therefore shields the notes from discovery.
Tonya Takahashi sees a thief removing boxes of inventory from her loading dock. She uses reasonable force to stop the thief and recover the boxes. The boxes are tangible movable property that she may defend with force.
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Theodore Tucker is indicted and placed in a post-charge lineup. Counsel is required at the identification because the procedure is a critical stage. The right attaches at this critical stage of the prosecution.
Trailblazer Airlines' board authorizes new shares in exchange for used aircraft engines. The engines qualify as tangible property that may serve as consideration for the issuance. The board's determination of adequacy renders the shares validly issued.
True North Logistics' executor decides that certain machinery must be administered by the estate. The machinery is tangible personal property that the representative may take into possession for administration.
Tangible personal property must be capable of being possessed and carried away. Real property and fixtures cannot be the subject of larceny until severed and reduced to the landowner's possession as personal property.
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Work-product protection covers tangible material prepared in anticipation of litigation and also covers its intangible equivalent.
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Force is justifiable to prevent or terminate the unlawful carrying away of tangible movable property when the actor believes the property is in his possession or in the possession of another person for whose protection he acts.
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The board may authorize shares for consideration consisting of any tangible or intangible property or benefit to the corporation, including tangible items such as equipment.
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A personal representative may take possession of tangible personal property when necessary for administration, even if the property could otherwise be left with a person presumptively entitled to it.
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…protection analysis might be different, in my view, if we were confronted with a more focused challenge to the denial of certain tangible benefits. Of course, those more selective claims will not arise now that the Court has taken the drastic step of requiring every State to license and recognize marriages between same-sex…