PERSONA

Lat. In the civil law. Character, in virtue of which certain rights belong to a man and certain duties.are imposed upon him. Thus one man may unite many characters, (perstJ1UB,) as, for example, the characters of father and son, of master and servant. Mackeld. Rom. Law, I 129. In ecclesia.■tical law. The rector of a church instituted and inducted, for his own life, was called "persona f1WrlaZis;" and any collegiate or conventual body, t.o whom the church was forever appropriated, was termed "per a one fmmorteZiB." Jacob. -Persona designs.ta...A. person pointed out or described as an individua.l, as opposed to a [s. 901]