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Meanings of law figure in English

Russian
субъект права
Portuguese
personalidade jurídica
Spanish
persona legal
Catalan
persona legal

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.

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    Usage of law figure in English
    1
    Therefore it seems that neither were the judicial precepts of the Old Law figures of anything.
    Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) / From the Com...
    2
    Everywhere, fines for transgressions of the law figured more largely as a source of revenue than they do nowadays.
    The Age of the Reformation
    3
    As well, Crown Law figures showed about $985,000 had been paid to its external counsel by the end of July this year.
    Radio NZ