Personal Statute in United States
Personal Statute Definition
law whose principal, direct, and immediate object is to regulate the condition of persons. The term is not properly in use in the common law, although Lord Mansfield, in 2 W. Bl. 234, applied it to those legislative acts which respect personal transitory contracts, but is occasionally used in the sense given to it in civil law, and which is adopted as its definition. It is a law, ordinance, regulation, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person, and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity which he does not change with his abode. See 2 Kent, Comm. (10th Ed.) 613.
Personal Statute in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias
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| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Family Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the IP Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Commercial Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Criminal Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Antritrust Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Bankruptcy Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Constitutional Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Tax Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the and Finance and Banking Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Employment and Labor Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Personal Injury and Tort Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Personal Statute | Personal Statute in the Environmental Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
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Legal Issue for Attorneys
law whose principal, direct, and immediate object is to regulate the condition of persons. The term is not properly in use in the common law, although Lord Mansfield, in 2 W. Bl. 234, applied it to those legislative acts which respect personal transitory contracts, but is occasionally used in the sense given to it in civil law, and which is adopted as its definition. It is a law, ordinance, regulation, or custom, the disposition of which affects the person, and clothes him with a capacity or incapacity which he does not change with his abode. See 2 Kent, Comm. (10th Ed.) 613.
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