The “legal person” is also relevant in electoral law. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), the Supreme Court upheld the legal personality of corporations seeking to contribute to political campaigns. Traditional Jewish law apparently did not recognize the type of property involved in the idea of society. Indivision is usually expressed in the form of a *partnership (shuttafut; Maim. Yad, Sheluhin ve-Shuttafin 4–10; Tur. and Sh. Ar., Ḥm 157-82). The main differences by which the company can be distinguished from the company are: the survival of a business depends on the lives of the partners or their respective heirs; the privileges, rights, responsibilities and obligations associated with a partnership, which fall almost directly on the individual members of the association; The chief executive officer of a partnership is interpreted as a representative of its members.

Although society is not a legal category in classical sources of Jewish law, scholars have tried, with varying degrees of success, to find types of associations and property agreements in Jewish history that correspond to or approximate society and that can be considered embodiments of the concept of a legal or legal person. The fruits of these attempts can be summarized as follows: a corporation is a “person” within the meaning of constitutional guarantees of equal protection of laws and due process. Not all organizations have legal personality. For example, directors of a corporation, legislature or government agency are generally not legal entities because they do not have the ability to exercise legal rights independently of the corporation or political body to which they belong. While natural persons acquire legal personality “naturally”, simply by birth (or before that in some jurisdictions), legal persons must have legal personality conferred on them by an “unnatural” legal procedure, and for this reason they are sometimes called “artificial” persons. In the most common case (business creation), legal personality is usually acquired by registration with a government agency established for this purpose. In other cases, this can be done through primary law: an example is the Charity Commission in the United Kingdom. [8] The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 calls for providing legal personality for all, including birth registration by 2030 as part of the 2030 Agenda. [9] Laws dealing with business organizations (i.e. corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, etc.) often use the term “legal person”, so the laws apply to both humans and non-human business units. In law, a corporation is any person or “thing” (less ambiguously any corporation)[1][2] that can do the things that an ordinary person can normally do in law – such as entering into contracts, suing and being sued, owning property, etc.

[3] [4] [5] The rationale for the term “corporation” is that some legal entities are not persons: Corporations and corporations are legally “persons” (they can legally do most of the things that an ordinary person can do), but they are clearly not people in the ordinary sense of the word. In the common law tradition, only one person could have legal rights. In order for them to work, the legal personality of a company has been established to include five legal rights: the right to a common treasure or safe (including the right to property), the right to a corporate seal (i.e. the right to conclude and sign contracts), the right to sue (to enforce contracts). the right to hire agents (employees) and the right to enact laws (self-government). [19] According to Indian law, “shebaitship” is property belonging to the deity or idol as a “legal person”. People who are destined to act in the name of divinity are called “shebait”. A shebait acts as guardian or guardian of the deity to protect the right of the deity and fulfill the legal duties of the deity.

Shebait is similar to a trustee if the deity or temple has a legally registered trust or legal entity. According to Hindu law, goods given or offered as rituals or gifts, etc. absolutely belong to the deity and not to the shebait. The case studies are “Profulla Chrone Requitte vs Satya Chorone Requitte”, AIR 1979 SC 1682 (1686): (1979) 3 SCC 409: (1979) 3 SCR 431. (ii)” and “Shambhu Charan Shukla vs Thakur Ladli Radha Chandra Madan Gopalji Maharaj, AIR 1985 SC 905 (909): (1985) 2 SCC 524: (1985) 3 SCR 372”. [24] The term “corporation” can be ambiguous as it is often used as a synonym for terms referring only to non-human legal persons, particularly as opposed to “natural person”. [10] [11] In Lavery, the Third Judicial Division held that in order to be a legal person, a person must be able to exercise not only legal rights, but also legal rights and obligations. And the court took it obvious that no chimpanzee is capable of carrying legal obligations.

The court concluded: A legal or legal person (Latin: persona ficta; also a legal person) has a legal name and has certain legal rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities and obligations, similar to those of a natural person. The concept of legal person is a fundamental legal fiction. It is relevant to the philosophy of law as it is essential for laws affecting a company (corporate law). In Act II, scene 1 of Gilbert and Sullivan`s 1889 opera The Gondoliers, Giuseppe Palmieri (who, with his brother Marco, is king of Barataria) asks that he and his brother be recognized separately so that they can each receive individual portions of food, because they have “two independent appetites”. However, it is rejected by the court (composed of other gondoliers) because the common rule”. is a legal person, and legal persons are solemn things. In lawsuits involving corporations, shareholders are not liable for the company`s debts, but the company itself, as a “legal entity”, is obliged to repay those debts or be sued for non-repayment of debts. [22] But in 2017, the NhRP discovered that the quoted sentence from Case Law – as it actually appears in the treaty – contains a crucial difference from the version that ended up in Lavery.