Personality
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A term used to desig nate that quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, or capacity of persons. An action in personality is one brought against the right person, or the person against whom it lies.
Fitzh. N. B. 92.
The personality of laws is a phrase used by foreign jurists to designate all laws concerning the condition, state, or capacity of persons, as distinguished from the reality of laws, which means all laws concerning property or things. To express the idea that the operation of a law is universal, it is termed a personal statute, and, on the other hand, to express the idea that its operation is confined to the country of its origin it is designated a real statute.
Sto. Confl. L. § 16.
Livermore used the words personality and reality, and Henry the words personalty and realty; Story preferred the former, as less likely to lead to mistakes, as, in our law, personalty and realty are used exclusively to designate personal and real property. ld.
See Situs.