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jurisdiction
an order for partition) affecting a person's interests in the property compare personal jurisdiction in this entry jurisdiction in personam : in personam jurisdiction in this entry jurisdiction in rem : in rem jurisdiction in this entry limited … : the jurisdiction granted a court over persons before it that allows the court to issue a binding judgment : personal jurisdiction in this entry in rem jurisdiction [in-rem-] : the jurisdiction granted a court over property
In rem
In rem. Civil actions are divided into actions in rem and actions in personam. A judgment in rem is a judgment pronounced on the status of some particular subject-matter. Such are actions
Wages
lien on the ship for their wages; they may enforce their claim by an action in rem or in personam. Courts of Summary Jurisdiction are given jurisdiction to try cases where wages not exceeding 50l. are claimed by … if he were of full age. Wages of any 'servant, labourer, or workman' cannot be attached to satisfy judgments, (English) Wages Attachment Abolition Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 30). Seamen have a lien on the
Action
of land. All forms of action are now abolished, but there still inevitably remains the distinction between actions in personam brought against an individual, actions in rem, which determine questions of title, and possessory actions, which decide merely … 'suit.' In olden times there was a more marked distinction, for an action was considered as terminating when judgment was rendered, the execution forming no part of it. A suit, on the other hand, included the execution.
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