单词 | artificial person |
释义 | > as lemmasartificial person 7. Law. An individual (natural person n.) or corporate body ( artificial person) recognized by the law as having certain rights and duties. †singular person: a person not associated with or representing a group of people; an individual not possessing the prerogatives or duties of public office (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal capacity > [noun] > legal person personc1390 natural person1628 c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2625 Right as a singuler persone [v.rr. person; man] synneth in takynge vengeance of another man, right so synneth the iuge if he do no vengeance of hem that it han disserued. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 75/1 Yey, by that same name, mowe be persones able to purchase Londez and Tenementz of all manere persones. 1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 150/1 Almaner Londes, Tenementes..and Pensions, which any persone Temporell, corporat or not corporat..then had, held, posseded, or occupied. 1689 S. Johnson Remarks Dr. Sherlock's Bk. 40 The next thing requisite to a Person being Commissionated is that he be a Legal Person. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) A Writ that lies for Prebendaries, or other Spiritual Persons. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 123 Natural persons are such as the God of nature formed us; artificial are such as are created and devised by human laws for the purposes of society and government; which are called corporations or bodies politic. 1833 Act 3 & 4 William IV c. 74 §1 The word ‘Person’ shall extend to a Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, as well as an Individual. 1861 W. Bell Dict. Sc. Law 219/1 Two or more persons are bound conjunctly and severally to perform an obligation. 1900 Daily News 20 Apr. 7/5 A Bill..extending to juridical persons, that is, duly registered corporations or partnerships, the right to engage in mining. 1959 Dict. Eng. Law II. 1334/2 In jurisprudence, a person is the object of rights and duties, that is, capable of having rights and of being liable to duties, while a thing is the subject of rights and duties. 1992 A. Pannett Princ. Hotel & Catering Law (ed. 3) 52 A limited company is an artificial legal person. < as lemmas |
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