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Personal actions
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Personal actionsPersonal actions are those brought for the specific goods and chattels; or for damages or other redress for breach of contract or for injuries of every other description; the specific recovery of lands, tenements and hereditaments only excepted.
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Personal
Belonging to the person.
Damages
A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another's fault or negligence. Damages are a typical request made of a court when persons sue for breach of contract or tort.
Redress
The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.
Breach
The breaking or violating of a law, right, or duty, either by commission or omission. The failure of one part to carry out any condition of a contract.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Recovery
A recovery, in its most extensive sense, is the restoration of a former right, by the solemn judgment of a Court of justice.
Hereditaments
Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with the land. By this term such things are denoted, as may be the subject-matter of inheritance, but not the inheritance itself; it cannot therefore, by its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life estate, into a fee.
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Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Person in need of supervision
Juvenile found to have committed a "status offense" rather than a crime that would provide a basis for a finding of delinquency.
Personable
Having the capacities of a person.
Personal
Belonging to the person.
Personal identification number
A code used to access personal data or accounts.
Personal injury attorney
An attorney specialized in cases of personal injury and related disputes and litigation.
Personal injury law
Legislation dealing with cases of personal injury, redress and compensation thereof.
Personal injury lawsuit
A lawsuit originated in a personal injury inflicted to one or more individuals.
Personal injury lawyer
A lawyer specialized in personal injury disputes and litigation.
Personal injury litigation
Litigation on matters of personal injury.
Personal jurisdiction
The power of the court to make orders regarding an individual and have them enforced.
Personal liberty
Personal poinding
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Personal property
The right or interest which a man has in things personal; it consists of things temporary and movable, and includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendable to the heirs at law.
Personal recognizance
In criminal proceedings, the pretrial release of a defendant without bail upon his or her promise to return to court.
Personal representative
In the law of wills, this is the general name given to the person who administers the estate of a deceased person. There are two kinds of personal representatives. Where a person dies without a will, the court must appoint an administrator. Where a personal representative is named in a will, the personal representative is known as an executor.
Personal representatives
These words are construed to mean the executors or administrators of the person deceased.
Personal security
The legal and uninterrupted enjoyment by a man of his life, his body, his health and his reputation.
Personality
An abstract of personal. It also signifies what belongs to the person.
Personality of laws
Those laws which regulate the condition, state, or capacity of persons. The term is used in opposition to those laws which concern property, whether real or personal, and things
Personate
To personate. The act of assuming the character of another without lawful authority, and, in such character, doing something to his prejudice, or to the prejudice of another, without his will or consent.
Personification theory
A theory of maritime liens, particularly popular in the United States, which understands such liens as rights against a ship, treated as being a person.
Persuade
To persuade. To induce to act.
Persuading
Persuading is inducing-others to act.
Persuasion
The act of influencing by expostulation or request. While the persuasion is confined within those limits which leave the mind free, it may be used to induce another to make his will, or even to make it in his own favor; but if such persuasion should so far operate on the mind of the testator, that he would be deprived of a perfectly free will, it would vitiate the instrument.
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Perquisites
In its most extensive sense, perquisites signifies anything gotten by industry, or purchased with money, different from that which descends from a father or ancestor.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Person in need of supervision
Juvenile found to have committed a "status offense" rather than a crime that would provide a basis for a finding of delinquency.
Personable
Having the capacities of a person.
Personal
Belonging to the person.
Personal actions
Personal identification number
A code used to access personal data or accounts.
Personal jurisdiction
The power of the court to make orders regarding an individual and have them enforced.
Personal liberty
Personal poinding
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Personal property
The right or interest which a man has in things personal; it consists of things temporary and movable, and includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendable to the heirs at law.
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Personal
Belonging to the person.
Damages
A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another's fault or negligence. Damages are a typical request made of a court when persons sue for breach of contract or tort.
Redress
The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.
Breach
The breaking or violating of a law, right, or duty, either by commission or omission. The failure of one part to carry out any condition of a contract.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Description
A written account of the state and condition of personal property, titles, papers, and the like. It is a kind of inventory, but is more particular in ascertaining the exact condition of the property, and is without any appraisement of it.
Recovery
A recovery, in its most extensive sense, is the restoration of a former right, by the solemn judgment of a Court of justice.
Hereditaments
Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with the land. By this term such things are denoted, as may be the subject-matter of inheritance, but not the inheritance itself; it cannot therefore, by its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life estate, into a fee.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Person in need of supervision
Juvenile found to have committed a "status offense" rather than a crime that would provide a basis for a finding of delinquency.
Personable
Having the capacities of a person.
Personal
Belonging to the person.
Personal identification number
A code used to access personal data or accounts.
Personal injury attorney
An attorney specialized in cases of personal injury and related disputes and litigation.
Personal injury law
Legislation dealing with cases of personal injury, redress and compensation thereof.
Personal injury lawsuit
A lawsuit originated in a personal injury inflicted to one or more individuals.
Personal injury lawyer
A lawyer specialized in personal injury disputes and litigation.
Personal injury litigation
Litigation on matters of personal injury.
Personal jurisdiction
The power of the court to make orders regarding an individual and have them enforced.
Personal liberty
Personal poinding
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Personal property
The right or interest which a man has in things personal; it consists of things temporary and movable, and includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendable to the heirs at law.
Personal recognizance
In criminal proceedings, the pretrial release of a defendant without bail upon his or her promise to return to court.
Personal representative
In the law of wills, this is the general name given to the person who administers the estate of a deceased person. There are two kinds of personal representatives. Where a person dies without a will, the court must appoint an administrator. Where a personal representative is named in a will, the personal representative is known as an executor.
Personal representatives
These words are construed to mean the executors or administrators of the person deceased.
Personal security
The legal and uninterrupted enjoyment by a man of his life, his body, his health and his reputation.
Personality
An abstract of personal. It also signifies what belongs to the person.
Personality of laws
Those laws which regulate the condition, state, or capacity of persons. The term is used in opposition to those laws which concern property, whether real or personal, and things
Personate
To personate. The act of assuming the character of another without lawful authority, and, in such character, doing something to his prejudice, or to the prejudice of another, without his will or consent.
Personification theory
A theory of maritime liens, particularly popular in the United States, which understands such liens as rights against a ship, treated as being a person.
Persuade
To persuade. To induce to act.
Persuading
Persuading is inducing-others to act.
Persuasion
The act of influencing by expostulation or request. While the persuasion is confined within those limits which leave the mind free, it may be used to induce another to make his will, or even to make it in his own favor; but if such persuasion should so far operate on the mind of the testator, that he would be deprived of a perfectly free will, it would vitiate the instrument.
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Perquisites
In its most extensive sense, perquisites signifies anything gotten by industry, or purchased with money, different from that which descends from a father or ancestor.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Person in need of supervision
Juvenile found to have committed a "status offense" rather than a crime that would provide a basis for a finding of delinquency.
Personable
Having the capacities of a person.
Personal
Belonging to the person.
Personal actions
Personal identification number
A code used to access personal data or accounts.
Personal jurisdiction
The power of the court to make orders regarding an individual and have them enforced.
Personal liberty
Personal poinding
Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only.
Personal property
The right or interest which a man has in things personal; it consists of things temporary and movable, and includes all subjects of property not of a freehold nature, nor descendable to the heirs at law.
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