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PERSONAL

Volume 8 · 94 words · 1778 Edition

any thing that concerns, or is restrained to, the person; thus it is a maxim in ethics, that all faults are personal.

PERSONAL Action, in law, is an action levied directly and solely against the person; in opposition to a real or mixed action. See Action.

PERSONAL Goods, or Chattels, in law, signifies any moveable thing belonging to a person, whether alive or dead. See Chattels.

PERSONAL Verb, in grammar, a verb conjugated in all the three persons: thus called in opposition to an impersonal verb, or that which has the third person only.