in personam
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of in personam
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1880–85
Example Sentences
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The Court thereupon proceeded to hold that admiralty had jurisdiction in personam as well as in rem, over controversies arising out of contracts of affreightment between New York and Providence.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel
In modern times, thinking, whether he knows it or not, in terms of natural rights and by derivation of legal rights, the analytical jurist speaks of rights in personam.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
But in 1906 the Court discovered, by a vote of five-to-four, a situation in which a divorce proceeding is one in personam.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel
Obligation, the Roman term, meaning the relation of the parties to what the analytical jurists have called a right in personam is an exotic in our law in that sense.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
An action in personam asserts a right only against a particular person.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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