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  • PERSONAL
    Appertaining to the person ; belonging to an Individual; limited to the person; having the nature or partaking of the qualities of human beings, or of movable property. As to personal "Action," "Assets," "Chattels," "Contract," "Covenant," "Credit" "Demand," "Disability," "Franchise," "Injury." "Judgment," "Knowledge," "Law," "Liability," "Liberty," "Notice," "Property," "Replevin," "Representatives," More...
  • PERSONALIS ACTIO
    . Lat. In tbe civil law. A personal action; an action against' the person, (in personam.) Dig. 60, 16, 178, 2. In old English law. A personal action. In this sense, tbe term was borrowed from the civil law by Bracton. The English form is constantly used as the designation More...
  • PERSONALITER
    In old English law. Personally; In person.
  • PERSONALITY
    In modern civil law. The incidence of a law or statute upon persons, or that quality which makes it a personal law rather than a real law. "By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws which concern the condition, state, and capacity of persons." Story, Confl. Laws, More...
  • PERSONALTY
    Personal property; movable property; chattels. An abstract of personal. In old practice, an action was said to be in the personalty, where It was brought against the right person or the person against whom in law it lay. Old Nat. Brev. 92; Cowell. -Quasi personalty. Things which are movable in More...
  • PERSONATE
    In criminal law. To assume the person (character) of another, without his consent or knowledge, in order to deceive others, and, in such feigned character, to fraudulently do some act or gain some advantage, to the harm or prejudice of the person counterfeited. See 2 East, P. C. 1010.
  • PERSONERO
    In Spanish law. An attorney. So called because he represents the person of another, either in or out of court. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 5,1.1.
  • PERSONNE
    Fr. A person. This term la applicable to men and women, or to either. Civ. Code Lat. art. 3522, f 25. Persplona vera non snnt probanda. Co. Litt. 16. Plain truths need not be proved.
  • PERSUADE, PERSUADING
    To persuade is to induce to act. Persuading is inducing others to act Crosby v. Hawthorn, 25 Ala. 221; Wilson v. State, 38 Ala. 411; Nash v. Douglass, 12 Abb. Prac. (N. S.) (N. Y.) 190.
  • PERSUASION
    The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or Inclines the will to a determination. See Marx v. Threet, 131 Ala. 340, 30 South. 831.
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