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Meanings of legal person 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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субъект права

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

Usage of legal person in English
1
Imagines him incorporated, a legal person, employed and earning a living.
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
2
The proposed state constitutional amendment would declare that a fertilized human egg is a legal person.
Reuters
3
If they're successful, a dolphin could conceivably become the first non-human ever considered a legal person.
Wired
4
In the meantime, Hecht invites people to put Voyl's status as a legal person to the test.
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
5
She bowed to the legal person.
Macleod of Dare
6
Had it passed, Mississippi would have been the first U.S. state to define a fertilized egg as a legal person.
Reuters
7
The Nonhuman Rights Project wants a New York state court to declare Tommy, a 26-year-old chimpanzee an "autonomous legal person".
Radio NZ
8
The dominant estate was never "erected into a legal person," either by conscious fiction or as a result of primitive beliefs.
The Common Law
9
A US animals rights group is calling for a chimpanzee to be recognised as a 'cognitively commplex autonomous legal person' to lift its current imprisonment.
The Guardian
10
Last July Vox.com reported Bangladesh had declared all of its 700 rivers to be legal persons.
Radio NZ
11
There were some compensations in being a Legal Person (Nonhuman).
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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They are separate corporate bodies, or legal persons.
Financial Crime and Corruption
13
As legal persons, human beings possess a huge number of legal rights; it would be impossible to list them all.
Wired
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Where authorities do pursue enforcement action, asset recovery is usually low and legal persons are generally not effectively pursued and sanctioned.
Reuters