3078. Characterization is made according to the legal system of the court seized of the matter; however, characterization of property as movable or immovable is made according to the law of the place where it is situated.
Where a legal institution is unknown to the court or known to it under a different designation or with a different content, foreign law may be taken into account.
1991, c. 64, a. 3078; I.N. 2015-11-01.