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Actio Personalis

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A personal action

The proper term in the civil law is actio in personam, ACTIO PERSONALIS MORITUR CUM persona (Lat.) A personal action dies with the person. In Practice. A maxim which formerly expressed the law in regard to the surviving of personal actions.