At which stage of a case proceeding does a court acquire in personam jurisdiction over a defendant?

Before the legal proceeding began.

Explanation:

In personam jurisdiction is the authority that the courts have to determine the personal rights and liabilities of the parties before the proceedings began. If this jurisdiction lacked from the court which attends the case then it wouldn´t have the authority to bind the defendant to an obligation or adjudicate rights over a property.

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more people will not obey the law or vice vice versa

explanation: the answer really speaks for itself if the number of prisoners are going up then that means that more people will not obey the law and if less people are going to prison then that means that more people are obeying the law.

their just depressed and think that if they give pain to some one else the pain goes away from them. which it doesn't.