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
property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or
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.
Per"son*al, n. (Law) A movable; a chattel.
Per"son*al*ism (?), n. The quality or state of being personal;
personality. [R.]
Per`son*al"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Personalities (#). [Cf. F. personnalitÈ.
Cf. Personality.] 1. That which constitutes distinction of person;
individuality.
Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature
as a ground.
Coleridge.
2. Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc.,
of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive
nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities.
Sharp personalities were exchanged.
Macaulay.
3. (Law) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and
capacity of persons. Burrill.
Per"son*al*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Personalized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Personalizing (?).] To make personal. "They personalize death." H.
Spencer.
Per"son*al*ly, adv. 1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in
person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter
personally.
He, being cited, personally came not.
Grafton.
2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
particularly.
She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally
to the king.
Bacon.
3. With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as,
personally I have no feeling in the matter.