Personal Statute
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
^ law whose principal, direct, and immediate object is to regulate the condition of persons. The term is not properly in use in the common law, although Lord Mansfield, in 2 W. Bl. 234, applied it to those legislative acts which respect personal transitory contracts, but is occasionally used in the sense given to it in civil law, and which is adopted as its definition. It is a law, ordinance, regulation, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person, and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity which he does not change with his abode. See 2 Kent, Comm. (10th Ed.) 613.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A law whose principal, direct, and immediate object Is to regulate the condition of persons. The term is not properly in use in the common law, although Lord Mansfield, in 2 W. Bla. 154, applied it to those legislative acts which respect personal transitory contracts, but it is occasionally used in the sense given to it in civil law and which is adopted as its definition. It is a law, ordinance, regulation, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity which he does not change with his abode. See 2 Kent 613.