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PERSONAL

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anything 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 Identity. See Metaphysics, Part III. Chap. iii.

Personal Verb, in Grammar, a verb conjugated in all the three persons; thus called in opposition to an imperfessional verb, or that which has the third person only.

PERSONALITY, in the schools, is that which Personality constitutes an individual distinct person.