...actions are those whereby a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages instead of it ; or else damages for some injury done to his person or property. The former are said to be founded upon contracts, the latter upon torts or wrongs. Real actions are such as concern real property alone,...

...jurisdiction in personal actions generally: ie, actions whereby a man either claims the recovery of a debt, or satisfaction in damages for some injury done to his person or property. Besides this class of actions, all cases arising from disputed customs in the City of London tire tried...

...three kinds : actions personal, real, and mixed. Personal actions are such whereby a man claims a debt, or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof ; and,...founded on contracts, the latter upon torts or wrongs; and they are the same which the civil law calls " act iones in personam, quœ adversus eum inteiuluntur,...

...principally exercised in personal actions, which arc defined to be actions " whereby a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof; and...satisfaction in damages for some injury done to his person or property"(a). In the great majority of personal actions, the object is compensation in damages for...

...exercise in common over personal actions, which are defined to be actions whereby a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof; and,...whereby a man claims a satisfaction in damages for some injurv done to his person or property. The most general division of personal actions distinguishes...

...three kinds; actions personui, real, and mixed. Personal actions arc such whereby a man claims a debt, or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof: and likewise, whereby a man claims damages for some injury done to his ixirson or property. Of the former nature are all actions for debts;...

...three kinds : actions personal, real, and mixed. Personal actions are such whereby a man claims a debt, or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof; and,...founded on contracts, the latter upon torts or wrongs ; and they are the same which the civil law calls " actiones in personam, quœ adversus eum intenduntur,...

...and mixed. ~~~Personal actions are such whereby a man claims a debt, or personal dutjrr~ór~Jamáges in lieu thereof: and, likewise, whereby a man claims a satisfaction in damages for some~injury done to his person or propeity. TEe former are said to be founded on contracts, the laiter...

...by which a person claims a debt, or pertonal duty, or damages in lieu thereof, or by which a person claims a satisfaction in damages for some injury done to his person or property.* 3 Bl. Com. 117. PERSONAL ASSETS. Personal property in the hands of an executor or administrator, chargeable...

...claims the specific recovery of a debt, or of a personal chattel, or damages for breach of contract ; and likewise whereby a man claims a satisfaction in...for some injury done to his person or property. The forms of personal actions now in use are : — Debt — Covenant — Assumpsit — Dctinue — Trespass...