Personality
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The expression personality of laws signifies all laws which concern the condition, state, and capacity of persons, as the reality of laws means all laws which concern property or things. Whenever foreign jurists wish to express that the operation of a law is universal, they compendiously announce that it is a personal statute; and whenever, on the other hand, they wish to express that its operation is confined to the country of its origin, they simply declare it to be a real statute. Livermore uses the words personality and reality. Henry, the words personalty and realty. Story preferred the former, as least likely to lead to mistakes, as personalty in our law is confined to personal estate, and realty to real estate.
Wnarton.