Definition of Property. Meaning of Property. Synonyms of Property

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Definition of Property

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Personal Per"son*al, a. [L. personalis: cf. F. personnel.] 1. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. Every man so termed by way of personal difference. --Hooker. 2. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. The words are conditional, -- If thou doest well, -- and so personal to Cain. --Locke. 3. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. --Addison. 4. Done in person; without the intervention of another. ``Personal communication.' --Fabyan. The immediate and personal speaking of God. --White. 5. Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. 6. (Gram.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action (Law), a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, or the specific recovery of goods or chattels; -- opposed to real action. Personal equation. (Astron.) See under Equation. Personal estate or property (Law), movables; chattels; -- opposed to real estate or property. It usually consists of things temporary and movable, including all subjects of property not of a freehold nature. Personal identity (Metaph.), the persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness. Personal pronoun (Gram.), one of the pronouns I, thou, he, she, it, and their plurals. Personal representatives (Law), the executors or administrators of a person deceased. Personal rights, rights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property. Personal tithes. See under Tithe. Personal verb (Gram.), a verb which is modified or inflected to correspond with the three persons.
Property
Property Prop"er*ty, v. t. 1. To invest which properties, or qualities. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To make a property of; to appropriate. [Obs.] They have here propertied me. --Shak.

Meaning of Property from wikipedia

- three broad forms of property: private property, public property, and collective property (also called cooperative property). Property that jointly belongs...
- Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and...
- .properties is a file extension for files mainly used in Java-related technologies to store the configurable parameters of an application. They can also...
- Property damage (sometimes called damage to property), is damage or destruction of real or tangible personal property, caused by negligence, willful destruction...
- intellectual property. Property may also refer to: Property (philosophy), in philosophy and logic, an abstraction characterizing an object Material properties, properties...
- Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities. Private property is distinguishable from public...
- law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds...
- A property tax (whose rate is expressed as a percentage or per mille, also called millage) is an ad valorem tax on the value of a property. The tax is...
- Property Brothers is a Canadian reality television series now produced by Scott Brothers Entertainment, and is the original show in the Property Brothers...
- A chemical property is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established...