Persona

Lat In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which cortain rights belong to a man and certain duties are imposed upon him. Thus One man may unite many characters, {personae,) as, for example, the characters of father and son, of master and servant. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 129.

In ecclesiastical law. The rector of a church instituted and inducted, for his own life, was called "person a mortalis f' and any collegiate or conventual body, to whom the church was forever appropriated, was termed "persona immortalis." Jacob.

— Persona designata. A person pointed out or described as an individual, as opposed to a person ascertained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character.

— Persona ecclesiae. The parson or personation of the church.

— Persona non grata. In international law and diplomatic usage, a person not acceptable (for reasons peculiar to himself) to the court or government to which it is proposed to accredit him in the character of an ambassador or minister.

— Persona standi in judicio. Capacity of standing in court or in judgment; capacity to be a party to an action; capacity or ability to sue.