Personal
| Noun | 1. |  personal - a short newspaper article about a particular person or group |
| Adj. | 1. | personal - concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" Antonyms: impersonal - not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" |
| 2. | personal - particular to a given individual | |
| 3. | personal - of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism" | |
| 4. | personal - intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene" | |
| 5. | personal - indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings" |
PERSONAL. Belonging to the person.
2. This adjective is frequently employed in connection with
substantives, things, goods, chattels, actions, right, duties, and the like
as personal estate, put in opposition to real estate; personal actions, in
contradistinction to real actions; personal rights are those which belong to
the person; personal duties are those which are to be performed in person.
POINDING, PERSONAL, 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, &c., which are executed by
their proper officers. No cattle pertaining to the plough, nor instruments
of tillage, can be poinded in the time of laboring or tilling the ground,
unless where the debtor, has no other goods that may be poinded. Ersk. Pr.
L. Soot. 3, 6, 11. See Distress, to which this process is somewhat similar.