in personam
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of in personam
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Rights, in personam or in rem, are objects of economic value, and the exchange of these rights makes up the bulk, if not the whole, of economic exchange.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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
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
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
Tutius est pignori incumbere quam in personam agere.
From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis
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