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To effectuate, to commit a wrongful act, to commit a crime. … [Read more...] about PERPETRATE

Personal actions are those brought for the specific goods and chattels; or for damages or other redress for breach of contract or for injuries of every other description; the specific recovery of lands, tenements and hereditaments only excepted. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL ACTIONS

Generally, this term denotes the person who actually commits a crime or delict, or by whose immediate agency it occurs. But, where a servant of a railroad company is killed through the negligence of a co employe, the company itself may be regarded as the "perpetrator" of the act, within the meaning of a statute giving an action against the perpetrator. Philo v. Illinois Cent R. … [Read more...] about PERPETRATOR

All of one's personal property. Usually used in wills to state that all personal property is left to a specific heir. … [Read more...] about PERSONAL EFFECTS

When trespasses of one and the same kind, are committed on several days, and are in their nature capable of renewal or continuation, and are actually renewed or continued from day to day, so that the particular injury, done on each particular day, cannot be distinguished from what was done on another day, these wrongs are called permanent trespasses. in declaring for such … [Read more...] about PERMANENT-TRESPASSES