Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands and is a
self-governing British Crown Dependency with its own financial and
legal systems and its own courts of law.
Overview
Jersey property law is derived from a mixture of local statute
and customary (common) law. Jersey's customary law has evolved
from Norman-French law and is primarily contained in the judgments
of the Royal Court of Jersey and the writings of local and French
jurists.
In Jersey law property is either "movable" or
"immovable". These classifications are broadly similar to
the English classifications as "personal" or
"real" property.
Land in Jersey, together with any buildings or dwellings that
may be constructed on the land, constitute immovable property.
There are also certain other interests in land such as leases for a
term in excess of nine years that are also deemed by law to be
immovable property.
