personaltyn.
/ˈpəːsn̩l̩ti/, /ˈpəːs(ə)nl̩ti/, U.S. /ˈpərs(ə)nəlti/ Chiefly Law.† 1. The liability in law of an individual for a loss. Chiefly in in the personalty: (of a legal action) brought against an individual in order to recover compensation for a thing lost (rather than to recover the thing itself). Also rarely: = personality n. 8a. Obsolete (historical in later use).
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > other types of action > fact of being personal action
personalty1528
personality1658
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxvi In this case tenauntes in comune shal haue one accyon ioyntely..because that the accyon is in the parsonalte and not in the realte.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Bbb4/2 Personalty (Personalitas), is an abstract of personall. The action is in the personalty..that is to say, brought against the right person, or the person against whome in lawe it lieth.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Personality, (a Law-Term) an abstract of personal, as the action is in the personalty [1661 T. Blount personality; 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Personality]; that is, brought against the right person.
1888 Law Q. Rev. 4 405 Actions were said to be or to sound in the realty or in the personalty, according to the nature of the relief afforded therein.
2. Things recoverable in a personal action; personal goods or estate. Also gen. (in plural): personal belongings. See personal adj. 7. Now historical.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property
feec888
goodOE
chateus1297
moblea1325
farec1330
harness1340
gearc1380
plentiesc1384
goods and cattel1418
pelfa1425
testament1424
movables1428
personals1436
stuff1438
cattle1473
cabow1489
chattel1549
chattel personal1552
goods and chattels1576
luggage1624
corporeals1647
effects1657
chose1670
personalities1753
stock1776
plunder1780
personal effects1818
personalty1827
taonga1863
marbles1864
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property > personal belongings
thingc1300
geara1400
pertinencea1513
furniture1566
duds1665
equipage1716
paraphernalia1736
belonging1817
iktas1856
personalities1858
personalty1865
parapherna1876
shit1934
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Realty, is an abstract of real, and distinguished from Personalty.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxiv. 385 Our courts now regard a man's personalty in a light nearly, if not quite, equal to his realty: and have adopted a more enlarged and less technical mode of considering the one than the other.
1793 S. C. Cox in W. P. Williams Rep. (ed. 5) III. 22 The court was of opinion that upon the construction of the will the real estate was converted into personalty for all the purposes of the will.
1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 163 The intention to confine the word ‘estate’ to personalty was inferred by the subsequent specification.
1865 Look before you Leap I. 12 His gay jacket, his horses, and a few personalties.
1888 Law Q. Rev. 4 405 The terms, the realty, the personalty were applied to the things recoverable in real or personal actions respectively. Such things were then distinguished as real or personal things.
1912 R. A. Freeman Myst. 31, New Inn v. 91 On her will being proved it appeared that she had bequeathed to him her entire personalty, estimated at about thirty thousand pounds.
1991 Past & Present Aug. 172 The probate calendars recorded only personalty until 1898, when unsettled realty was included.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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