Legal Natural Person
A Legal Natural Person is a real person who is a legal person.
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- Example(s):
- any Citizen.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- an Ancient Person, such as: Ötzi the Iceman.
- a Newborn Human, Adolescent Human, ...
- a Principal Agent.
- a Corporation.
- a Fictional Person, such as “Gilgamesh”.
- See: Occupation, Human Being, Human Rights.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/natural_person Retrieved:2015-7-6.
- In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.
In many cases, fundamental human rights are implicitly granted only to natural persons. For example, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender, or Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees equality rights, apply to natural persons only. Another example of the distinction between natural and legal persons is that a natural person can hold public office, but a corporation cannot.
A corporation or non-governmental organization can, however, file a lawsuit or own property as a legal person.
- In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.