Pertaining to a person or self-conscious being as distinct or distinguihshed from a thing; having personality, or the character of a person; self-conscious; belonging to men and women, or to superhuman intelligences, and not to animals or things: as, a personal God; the personal object of a verb.Pertaining, relating, or peculiar to a person or self-consciious individual as distinct or distinguished from others or from the community; individual: as, not a public but a personal matter; personal interests; personal property, etc.Proper or directly applicable to a specific person or individual, or to his character, conduct, etc.; pointed, directed, or specifically applicable or applied, especially in a disparaging or offensive sense or manner, to some particular individual (either one's self or another): as, a personal paragraph; personal abuse; personal remarkes.Relating to one's self, or one's own experiences: as, personal reminiscences.Done, effected, or made in person, and not by deputy or representative: as, a personal appearance; a personal interview; personal service of a summons; personal application is necessary.Persent in person.Of or pertaining to the person or bodily form; belonging to the face or figure; corporeal: as personal beauty.In grammar, denoting or pointing to the person; expressing the distinctions of the three persons: as, a personal pronoun; a personal verb.An action for the recovery of money or specific chattles.Any action other than one for the recovery of land.Originally called personal because the remedy for deprivation was to recover damages enforceable against the person of the defendant. In the law of England the distinction between real and personal property is very nearly the same as the distinction between heritable and movable property in the law of Scotland.Those who succeed to property and rights by virtue of a personal relation, or as deemed to represent in law the person.In the law of real property, such a servitude as has not been constituted for the advantage of the estate, but has been granted on another's estate, only for the use of a person.n. In law, any movable thing, either living or dead; a movable.n. A short notice or paragraph in a newspaper referring to some person or persons.
