legal personality

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• Legal personality — (also artificial personality, juridical personality, and juristic personality) is the characteristic of a non human entity regarded by law to have the status of a person. A legal person (Latin: persona ficta), (also artificial person, juridical… …   Wikipedia

• legal personality — n: the quality or state of being a legal person Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. legal personality …   Law dictionary

• legal personality — registered institution with legal rights and responsibilities (i.e. a factory, company, or organization) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Legal Personality —   The right of a body or organization under international law to take autonomous action rather than relying upon national governments to act on its behalf. It is provided to the EC by the Treaty of Rome, enabling the EC to enter into legally… …   Glossary of the European Union and European Communities

• legal personality — /ˌli:g(ə)l ˌpɜ:sə næləti/ noun existence in a form that enables something to be affected by the law …   Dictionary of banking and finance

• LEGAL PERSON — LEGAL PERSON, a body of men or of property which the law, in imitation of the personality of human beings, treats artificially as subject of rights and duties independent of its component parts. The classic example of a legal person is the  … …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• personality — per‧son‧al‧i‧ty [ˌpɜːsəˈnælti ǁ ˌpɜːr ] noun personalities PLURALFORM 1. [countable] LAW an organization that from a legal point of view is separate from the people who own it or manage it: • A company has a separate legal personality, and its… …   Financial and business terms

• personality — per·son·al·i·ty n pl ties 1: the quality, state, or fact of being a person the corporation has legal personality 2: the totality of an individual s behavioral and emotional characteristics a personality disorder Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of… …   Law dictionary

• Legal person — Note: This Wikipedia entry deals with the legal concept legal person . There is an ongoing political debate and controversy in the U.S. over the extent to which constitutional rights presumed to have been created for natural persons have… …   Wikipedia

• Personality rights — are generally considered to consist of two types of rights: the right to publicity, or to keep one s image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation, which is similar to the use of a trademark;… …   Wikipedia

• Legal fiction — In the common law tradition, legal fictions are suppositions of fact taken to be true by the courts of law, but which are not necessarily true. They typically are used to evade archaic rules of procedure or to extend the jurisdiction of the… …   Wikipedia