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Meanings of legal entity in English

Russian
корпоративная правосубъектность
Portuguese
pessoa coletiva
Catalan
personificació d'empreses
Spanish
persona moral

Notion that corporations can have some legal rights, responsibilities and accountability.

Related terms
корпоративная правосубъектность
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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субъект права
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Examples for "corporate personhood"
Examples for "corporate personhood"
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Corporate personhood is well-entrenched.
Reuters
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But if it can do that, why not skip the human completely, and just use an artificial person instead?
Wired
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I'm looking for some general information about the Imperium, a leader named Nilo Hios, and an artificial person called Logos.
RUNNER
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The point is: the Queen is a genuine, not an artificial person, by which I mean there is no artifice in how she approaches things.
A journey: my political life
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"Not to mention the artificial person that he referred to," the runner continued.
RUNNER
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"I prefer the term " artificial person' myself," Bishop interjected softly.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
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Specialized production -let each person or corporation persons do what they do best.
The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
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I am her mother, you the first judicial person in Napoule.
The Broken Cup
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The form of the business entity may dictate how it is operated.
Reuters
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Some states have begun to levy taxes on the business entity itself.
Reuters
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This strips away the protections that the business entity provides its owners.
Reuters
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The owners of the business entity must agree to dissolve.
Reuters
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Wren was formally founded as a business entity in 2016.
The Irish Times
Usage of legal entity in English
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It will then be a separate legal entity from the parent company.
The South African
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Saab is a separate legal entity and has its own short-term capital.
Reuters
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Introducing a similar legal entity in the Netherlands could boost the sector, campaigners said.
Reuters
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It is a separate legal entity and aims to continue to operate as usual.
Reuters
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Soon The Premier League announced itself as a legal entity separate from the FA.
The Guardian
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It is the connections between institutions that cause problems not the legal entity, he said.
Reuters
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Like GM, Delphi went through bankruptcy and emerged in 2009 as a different legal entity.
Reuters
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It is a separate legal entity from Thomas Cook.
Reuters
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Importantly, it is not recognized as a legal entity.
Pubmed
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Both companies should also fully inform users of the legal entity providing the service, FAS added.
Reuters
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Observing such formalities provides evidence that the corporation is a separate legal entity from its shareholders.
Reuters
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The deed establishes the Whanganui River as its own legal entity, to be managed by iwi.
Radio NZ
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GM emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2009 as a different legal entity than the so-called old GM.
Reuters
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The deed will establish the Whanganui River as its own legal entity, to be managed by iwi.
Radio NZ
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By this vote, the cabinet, according to the Persian constitution, ceased to exist as a legal entity.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
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A corporation is just a legal entity.
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