An entity that is not a person, but is regarded by law to have the status of a person.
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Imagines him incorporated, a legal person, employed and earning a living.
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The proposed state constitutional amendment would declare that a fertilized human egg is a legal person.
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If they're successful, a dolphin could conceivably become the first non-human ever considered a legal person.
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In the meantime, Hecht invites people to put Voyl's status as a legal person to the test.
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She bowed to the legal person.
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Had it passed, Mississippi would have been the first U.S. state to define a fertilized egg as a legal person.
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The Nonhuman Rights Project wants a New York state court to declare Tommy, a 26-year-old chimpanzee an "autonomous legal person".
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The dominant estate was never "erected into a legal person," either by conscious fiction or as a result of primitive beliefs.
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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.
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Last July Vox.com reported Bangladesh had declared all of its 700 rivers to be legal persons.
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There were some compensations in being a Legal Person (Nonhuman).
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They are separate corporate bodies, or legal persons.
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As legal persons, human beings possess a huge number of legal rights; it would be impossible to list them all.
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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.