Persona

A person; also a parson, q. v. The rector of a church instituted and inducted, for his own life, was called persona mortalis; and any collegiate or conventual body, to whom the church was for ever appropriated, was termed persona immortalis. Jacob. Persona conjuncta aequiparatur interesse proprio. A united personality is equivalent to one's own interest. Nearness of relationship is equivalent to a personal interest. The interest arising from a personal relationship is sometimes regarded in law as equal to the individual's own interest. This is one of the maxims of Lord Bacon, by whom it is thus explained: "The law hath that respect of nature and conjunction of blood, as in divers cases it measureth one man's profit and interest by another's, yea, and in some cases alloweth of it more strongly." And he gives this illustration: "So, if a man menace me, that he will imprison or hurt in body my father or my child, except I make unto him an obligation, I shall avoid this duress as well as if the duress had been to my own person." Bac. Max.