Personam

The plaintiffs asserted that because defendants were not subject to in personam jurisdiction in Tennessee, Tennessee's tolling provision was applicable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

So reading your posts is a welcome break from in personam jurisdiction, but posting my own is a bit more than I can chew for now. ❋ Lindy (2007)

The ruling that some have called ad paninum -- for the sandwich -- is an analogy with the many laws ad personam -- for his own person -- Berlusconi's government passed in the past few years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sam Bloch, the president of the American Gathering, is a member of the Claims Conference Executive Committee, and American Gathering Senior Vice President Max Liebmann has been appointed as one of a number of ad personam members of the Claims Conference board. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among these are time, locality (locum), personal (personam), and subject (subjectam). ❋ Unknown (2009)

His comment on judges who dared, in 2003, to oppose his ad personam legislation to protect himself from retrospective charges was that judges are "mentally disturbed" and "anthropologically different from the rest of the human race". ❋ Unknown (2009)

From my admittedly random sampling of right-wing US blogs; NRO, Malkin etc. etc., ad personam nuttiness certainly looks as though it is playing a part, if not at the exact centre or Republican thinking, then pretty close in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last week, the government introduced a bill promoted as “one of the most radical reforms of Italy's snail-paced justice system since the end of World War II”, which the opposition, magistrates, and consumer advocacy groups insist is yet another “ad personam law”, tailored to help Berlusconi avoid corruption trials. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also Prince Radu will receive the title ‘HRH Prince Consort of Romania’ ad personam, when Princess Margarita will be the Head of the Royal House of Romania. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That which I am about to relate to you concerns my choice of religious faith and personal life in which I do not wish to involve in any way the Corriere della Sera, which it has been an honor to be a part of as deputy director “ad personam” since 2003. ❋ Papabear (2008)

Does God have an actual presence there, so that God has attorned and the Nebraska courts have jurisdiction in personam? ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is most commonly used to refer specifically to the ad hominem abusive, or argumentum ad personam, which consists of criticizing or personally attacking an argument's proponent in an attempt to discredit that argument. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That would be an ad hominem or alternatively ad personam attack as it is typically understood . . . kinda like making fun of someone's blog. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

Morris Berg on Seven Machos: That would be an ad hominem or alternatively ad personam attack as it is typically understood . . . kinda like making fun of someone's blog... ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

I wouldn't exactly call that a response on the merits, but rather ad hominem, or more accurately, ad hominem abusive, or argumentum ad personam. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)