Definition of Judgment in personam

1. Noun. A judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Judgment In Personam

judgers
judgeship
judgeships
judgest
judgeth
judging
judgingly
judgmatic
judgmatical
judgmatically
judgment
judgment by default
judgment call
judgment calls
judgment day
judgment in personam (current term)
judgment in rem
judgment lien
judgment of Solomon
judgment of conviction
judgment of dismissal
judgment on the merits
judgment on the pleadings
judgment proof
judgmental
judgmentalism
judgmentally
judgmentless
judgments
judgship

Literary usage of Judgment in personam

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"And the referee has no jurisdiction to render judgment in personam.88 He proceeds solely by "orders." § 545|. No Jurisdiction over Discharge Matters. ..."

2. A Digest of the Law of England with Reference to the Conflict of Laws by Albert Venn Dicey (1896)
"Subject to the possible exception hereinafter mentioned, a valid foreign judgment in personam may be enforced by an action for the amount due under it if ..."

3. A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace (1855)
"It was decided, under these circumstances, that the judgment in Canada was not binding as a judgment in personam, for want of notice, and was equally ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
""Though * * * an attachment be absolutely void, this is no ground for dismissing a declaration thereon, praying for judgment in personam, where the ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
":is against defendant not personally served within the state, of a judgment in personam against joint debtors; note to ('ella Commission Co. v. Rohlinger. ..."

6. Foreign and Domestic Law: A Concise Treatise on Private International by John Alderson Foote (1904)
"A foreign judgment in personam, though not a merger of the i>. ... 573. judgment in personam, final in the Court which pronounced it, is conclusive in every ..."

7. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"... conceded the effect of a judgment in personam within the states where rendered, they have expressly determined that they cannot be accorded that effect ..."

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