diff --git a/dumux/common/properties.hh b/dumux/common/properties.hh
index 4d058fc124dab76d0aff1936726175807b234201..7974745b5afe63ee63d57eb2d91d3fadffb37161 100644
--- a/dumux/common/properties.hh
+++ b/dumux/common/properties.hh
@@ -113,8 +113,6 @@ NEW_PROP_TAG(PrimaryVariableSwitch);               //!< The primary variable swi
 NEW_PROP_TAG(EffectiveDiffusivityModel);           //!< The employed model for the computation of the effective diffusivity
 NEW_PROP_TAG(ThermalConductivityModel);            //!< Model to be used for the calculation of the effective conductivity
 NEW_PROP_TAG(VelocityOutput);                      //!< specifies the velocity calculation module to be used
-
-NEW_PROP_TAG(MaterialLaw);                         //!< The material law which ought to be used (extracted from the spatial parameters)
 NEW_PROP_TAG(Formulation);                         //!< The formulation of the model
 // TODO: is this useful? -> everything is a constraint solver just a different type
 NEW_PROP_TAG(UseConstraintSolver);                 //!< Whether to use a contraint solver for computing the secondary variables
diff --git a/dumux/material/spatialparams/sequentialfv.hh b/dumux/material/spatialparams/sequentialfv.hh
index efea0982b08b66b479d55fe9b908a74c3b00b566..29977ed52f85ab17ff85046b561c8e4cd70e1e91 100644
--- a/dumux/material/spatialparams/sequentialfv.hh
+++ b/dumux/material/spatialparams/sequentialfv.hh
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@
 #include <dumux/common/properties.hh>
 #include "sequentialfv1p.hh"
 
-namespace Dumux
-{
+namespace Dumux {
+namespace Properties
+{ NEW_PROP_TAG( MaterialLaw ); }
+
 /*!
  * \ingroup SpatialParameters
  * \brief The base class for spatial parameters of a multi-phase problem using the
diff --git a/dumux/porousmediumflow/2p2c/sequential/properties.hh b/dumux/porousmediumflow/2p2c/sequential/properties.hh
index f6a2cb3c66a38a3c7bee0eeae5c4ce512ab7470b..74bce37e1bdbe748c76456a648cdc20869bc0791 100644
--- a/dumux/porousmediumflow/2p2c/sequential/properties.hh
+++ b/dumux/porousmediumflow/2p2c/sequential/properties.hh
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ NEW_TYPE_TAG(SequentialTwoPTwoC, INHERITS_FROM(Pressure, Transport, IMPET));
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 NEW_PROP_TAG( Indices );
 NEW_PROP_TAG( SpatialParams ); //!< The type of the soil properties object
+NEW_PROP_TAG( MaterialLaw ); //!< The type of the material law
 NEW_PROP_TAG( PressureFormulation); //!< The formulation of the model
 NEW_PROP_TAG( SaturationFormulation); //!< The formulation of the model
 NEW_PROP_TAG( VelocityFormulation); //!< The formulation of the model