Overview [1][2]#

Legal Person is an Entity that is capable of holding legal rights and obligations and held responsible and/or accountable for its actions in at least one Jurisdiction.

Legal Person is a prerequisite to legal capacity, the ability of any Legal Person to amend (enter into, transfer, etc.) rights and obligations.

In international law, consequently, Legal Person is a prerequisite for an international organization to be able to sign international treaties in its own name.

Legal persons (Latin: persona iuris) are of two kinds:

• Natural Persons (human)
• Juridical Persons (not a human)

While human beings acquire legal personhood when they are born, juridical persons do so when they are incorporated in accordance with law.

Legal Person may have or may not a digital Identity

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Account
• Citizen
• Company
• Data Controller
• Data Ownership
• Data Processor
• Direct Tax
• Explicit consent
• Federated Authorization for UMA 2.0
• Human
• Identity Proofing
• Independent contractor
• Law of agency
• Legal Fictions
• Legal right
• Liability
• Natural Person
• Payment Service User
• Person
• Private Law
• Public Law
• Tax

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• [#1] - Legal_personality - based on information obtained 2016-09-10-
• [#2] - legal entity - based on information obtained 2017-01-25