'Personal action' definitions:

Definition of 'Personal action'

From: GCIDE
  • Personal \Per"son*al\ (p[~e]r"s[u^]n*al), a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.]
  • 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. [1913 Webster]
  • Every man so termed by way of personal difference. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. "Personal communication." --Fabyan. [1913 Webster]
  • The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]