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Noun Concept

Categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Management cybernetics, Legal fictions, United Kingdom-centric, Legal terms

legal person artificial person legal entity legal personality artificial personality

In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. Wikipedia

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A concept of legal practice Wikipedia Disambiguation

Any human or non-human entity that is recognized as having privileges and obligations; a legal fiction which is used to abstract away the differences between natural persons, juridical persons and other entities such as countries Wikidata

Person or entity as seen from a legal perspective Wikidata

The characteristic of an entity that is not a person, but is regarded by law to have the status of a person. OmegaWiki

A legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act. OmegaWiki

An entity that is not a person, but is regarded by law to have the status of a person. OmegaWiki

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