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/pˈərsɪnɪl prˈɑpərti/ Listen

adjective

Personal adj.

1.

Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. "Every man so termed by way of personal difference."

2.

Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. "The words are conditional, If thou doest well, and so personal to Cain."

3.

Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.

4.

Done in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." "The immediate and personal speaking of God."

5.

Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

6.

(Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; opposed to real action.

Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation.

Personal estate or Personal property (Law), movables; chattels; opposed to real estate or real property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature.

Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness.

Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals.

Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased.

Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.

Personal tithes. See under Tithe.

Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.

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"Personal property" Quotes from Famous Books

... boundary questions within the national state. It calls into existence new functional bodies, or distributes new functions to old ones. It runs the police. It makes whatever laws are necessary to regulate personal conduct and personal property. ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... definite and widespread cause of discontent was probably the introduction of a new form of taxation, the general poll tax. Until this time taxes had either been direct taxes laid upon land and personal property, or indirect taxes laid upon various objects of export and import. In 1377, however, Parliament agreed to the imposition of a tax of four pence a head on all laymen, and Convocation soon afterward taxed all the clergy, regular and secular, the same ...

— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

... successor was Houseal (Hausihl), who had emigrated from Strassburg in 1752. In 1771 he conducted the last service in the Dutch language. In 1776 the church was reduced to ashes by the great fire which destroyed about one-fourth of the city. Though losing all his personal property, he rescued the documents and records of the old congregation. Being an ardent loyalist, he received permission from the British commander to use the Presbyterian church, where his services were also attended by the Hessian ...

— American Lutheranism - Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod • Friedrich Bente

... been clouded, so that there was in fact no power of looking out at all. Over the fireplace there was a table of descents and relationship, showing how heirship went; and the table was very complicated, describing not only the heirship of ordinary real and personal property, but also explaining the wonderful difficulties of gavelkind, and other mysteriously traditional laws. But the table was as dirty as it was complicated, and the ordinary waiting reader could make nothing of it. There was a small table in the room, near the window, which ...

— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope

... daughter of the O'Connell who lived then at Derrynane, an aunt of the "Liberator." He settled at a place called Raleigh, situated on the river Lee, and became a country gentleman, holding considerable personal property. From his descent and creed he was looked on as a chieftain by the peasantry, which made him unpopular among his neighbors of English blood. One of them, a Mr. Morris, took great pride in a fine stud of horses. Having lost a race to O'Leary on which a ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various

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