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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Examples for "legal person "
1 Imagines him incorporated, a legal person , employed and earning a living.
2 The proposed state constitutional amendment would declare that a fertilized human egg is a legal person .
3 If they're successful, a dolphin could conceivably become the first non-human ever considered a legal person .
4 In the meantime, Hecht invites people to put Voyl's status as a legal person to the test.
5 She bowed to the legal person .
1 If you're not a legal body , you can't offer contracts other than on a short-term basis.
2 The settlements are considered illegal by the International Court of Justice, the highest U.N. legal body for disputes.
3 The ruler of Prussia was compelled to convene a parliament and submitted to that legal body a constitution.
4 He asserted that as members of a legal body , the School fellow-citizens as the law recognized and pointed out.
5 Gbagbo has defied pressure to step down after a pro-Gbagbo legal body reversed the results showing Ouattara won the poll.
1 There are four essentials of a legal contract: competent parties, consideration, agreement, and legal subject matter.
2 This chapter is the only one in the Vendîdâd that deals with legal subjects .
3 But when a layman ventures to plunge deeply into legal subjects , he is naturally apt to make an exhibition of his incompetence.
4 Mr. Tucker's reply implied that he doubted Mr. Blaine's ability to pass correct judgment on legal subjects , as that gentleman was not a lawyer.
5 'Gentlemen, and my very good friends, you are all, as you know, my legal subjects , and men of the famous town of Mansoul.
1 It will then be a separate legal entity from the parent company.
2 Saab is a separate legal entity and has its own short-term capital.
3 Introducing a similar legal entity in the Netherlands could boost the sector, campaigners said.
4 It is a separate legal entity and aims to continue to operate as usual.
5 Soon The Premier League announced itself as a legal entity separate from the FA.
1 But if it can do that, why not skip the human completely, and just use an artificial person instead?
2 I'm looking for some general information about the Imperium, a leader named Nilo Hios, and an artificial person called Logos.
3 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.
4 "Not to mention the artificial person that he referred to," the runner continued.
5 "I prefer the term " artificial person ' myself," Bishop interjected softly.
1 Eagerly Lloyd George entered upon his work at the university, studying especially the subject of law .
2 We must now consider the subject of laws , and the methods of enforcing justice amongst the civilized nations.
3 If no one knows WHAT is the mind - how can it be the subject of laws and rights?
1 Scotland would need a new constitution and a distinct legal personality .
2 CHAPTER 5 ARTICLE 198d The European Investment Bank shall have legal personality .
3 Should algorithms have legal personality ?
4 The companies have all the advantages of a regular firm: they have a " legal personality " and can open bank accounts.
1 Prisoners of war, too, were by law subject to slavery.
2 And all officers and employees in the penitentiary service who are by law subject to classification.
3 The New York law subjected merchants to a potential one-year prison sentence and $500 fine for imposing card surcharges.
4 How like a woman born to fill a loftier sphere than that to which a cruel law subjects her, she seems!
5 The New York law subjected merchants to a potential one-year prison sentence and $500 fine for imposing credit card surcharges.
1 Therefore it seems that neither were the judicial precepts of the Old Law figures of anything.
2 Everywhere, fines for transgressions of the law figured more largely as a source of revenue than they do nowadays.
3 As well, Crown Law figures showed about $985,000 had been paid to its external counsel by the end of July this year.
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