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Liability that extends into a person's own funds or property. Usually in context of business, where a business liability could extend beyond the assets of the business and into those assets owned by the business owner. See sole proprietorship and partnership liability. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL LIABILITY

In criminal law. To assume the person (character) of another, without his consent or knowledge, in order to deceive others, and, in such feigned character, to fraudulently do some act or gain some advantage, to the harm or prejudice of the person counterfeited. See 2 East, P. C. 1010. … [Read more...] about PERSONATE

Vide Liberty. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL LIBERTY

In Spanish law. An attorney. So called because he represents the person of another, either in or out of court. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 5,1.1. … [Read more...] about PERSONERO

Scotch law. Poinding of the goods belonging to the debtor; and of those goods only. 2. It may have for its warrant either letters of horning, containing a clause for poinding, and then it is executed by messengers; or precepts of poinding, granted by sheriffs, commissaries, which are executed by their proper officers. No cattle pertaining to the plough, nor instruments of … [Read more...] about PERSONAL POINDING