Personal
A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
Pertaining to the person; belonging to, or following the person; relating to, or affecting the person; against the person. Personal action: an action against the person, an action founded on personal obligation; an action by which a person claims a debt, or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof, or by which a person claims a satisfaction in damages for some injury done to his person or property. Personal assets: personal property in the hands of an executor or administrator, chargeable with the debts or legacies, and applicable to their payment Personal chattels: things movable which may be annexed to or attendant on the person of the owner. Personal contract: a contract respecting personal property. Personal estate: personal property. Personal liberty: the right or power of moving one's person from place to place according to inclination without restraint, unless by due course of law. Personal property: property not of a freehold nature, not descendible to the heirs at law, — usually consisting of things temporary and movable^ Personal representatives: executors or administrators. Personal rights: V. Bights of persons. Personal security: a person's legal* and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, liis body, his health, and his reputation. In foreign and modern civil law. Personal have principally for their object the only incidentally.