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Personal estate   /pˈərsɪnɪl ɪstˈeɪt/   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 estate" Quotes from Famous Books



... form of its institutions. Against this sum may also be placed the proceeds of the Crown Lands which were surrendered to Parliament upon the accession of William and Mary and which had before that been recognized as a personal estate of the Sovereign over which Parliament had no control. In addition to these Crown Land revenues other sums were voted as required. Upon their surrender to the nation (during the life of each Sovereign) it has become the custom, since 1868, to vote a permanent Civil List ...
— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins
... followed a busy two weeks for Tyrrel, who had the superintendence of the packing, which was no light business. For though Ethel would not denude the Court of its ancient furniture and ornaments, there were many things belonging to the personal estate of the late Squire which had been given to her by his will, and could not be left behind. But by the end of October cases and trunks were all sent off to the steamship in which their passage was taken; and the Rawdon estate, which had played such a momentous part in ...
— The Man Between • Amelia E. Barr
... Alpheus H. Hardy was elected to the office. In 1896, the trustees issued a report in which they informed the friends of Wellesley that although Mr. Durant, in his will, had made the college his residuary legatee, subject to a life tenancy, the personal estate had suffered such depreciation and loss "as to render this prospective endowment of too slight consequence to be reckoned on in any plans for the development and maintenance of the college." At this time, Wellesley was in debt to the amount of $103,048.14. During ...
— The Story of Wellesley • Florence Converse
... being made of that mode of taxation; nor, indeed, in the States where almost the sole employment is agriculture, are the objects proper for excise sufficiently numerous to permit very ample collections in that way. Personal estate (as has been before remarked), from the difficulty in tracing it, cannot be subjected to large contributions, by any other means than by taxes on consumption. In populous cities, it may be enough the subject of conjecture, to occasion the oppression of individuals, without much aggregate ...
— The Federalist Papers • Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
... law recognised was the militia. That force had been remodelled by two Acts of Parliament, passed shortly after the Restoration. Every man who possessed five hundred pounds a year derived from land, or six thousand pounds of personal estate, was bound to provide, equip, and pay, at his own charge, one horseman. Every man who had fifty pounds a year derived from land, or six hundred pounds of personal estate, was charged in like manner with one pikemen or musketeer. Smaller proprietors ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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