Personality
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In foreign and modem civil law. That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. By the personality of laws, foreign jurists generally mean all laws which concern the condition, state, and capacity of persons. Story, Confl. Laws, § 16.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
That quality of a law which and capacity of persons.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
The expression personality of laws signifies all laws which concern the condition, state, and capacity of persons, as the reality of laws means all laws which concern property or things. Whenever foreign jurists wish to express that the operation of a law is universal, they compendiously announce that it is a personal statute; and whenever, on the other hand, they wish to express that its operation is confined to the country of its origin, they simply declare it to be a real statute. Livermore uses the words personality and reality. Henry, the words personalty and realty. Story preferred the former, as least likely to lead to mistakes, as personalty in our law is confined to personal estate, and realty to real estate. Wnarton.