The story
- Latin · derived frommōbilia“chattels”
- English todaymobilia sequuntur personam
Latin mōbilia (“chattels”) + sequuntur (“they follow”) + persōnam (“person”) = “chattels follow the person”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mobilia sequuntur personam
Today it means: Common law doctrine holding that personal property held by a person is governed by the same law that governs that person, so that if a person who is legally domiciled in one jurisdiction dies with property in a second jurisdiction, that property is legally treated as though it were in the first jurisdiction. Full definition →
Latin mōbilia