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This concept is called legal personhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person When it's not a natural person
by roywiggins 11mo ago
This concept is called legal personhood:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person
When it's not a natural person (ie, a human being) it's called a juridical person:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juridical_person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juridical_person
"Person" is in this usage a piece of legal jargon.
- 9rx 11mo ago> "Person" is in this usage a piece of legal jargon. There is no usage of "Person" here. It says "People". The plural of "legal person" is "legal persons", so clearly nobody is talking about that.
- roywiggins 11mo agoThe entire rest of the article is about legal personhood.
- 9rx 11mo agoThat's all well and good, but we're not talking about the rest of the article. Only the bit that says "It’s widely known that Corporations are People" — which is not about legal personhood. "People" always refers to those found in the flesh. Which, like before, is why the law is careful to use "legal persons" instead of "legal people" when the plural form is relevant; to not confuse non-human legal entities as being people.