Actio Personalis
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil and common law. <A personal action. The ordinary term for this kind of action in the civil law is actio in personam, (q. v.,) the word personalis being of only occasional occurrence.
Inst. 4, 6, 8, in tit.; Id. 4, 11, pr. 1.
Bracton, however, uses it freely, and hence the personal aciion of the common law. Bract. fols.
1022, 159d.
See PexrsonaL