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A business entity is an entity that is formed and administered as per corporate law [Note 1] in order to engage in business activities, charitable work, or other activities allowable. Most often, business entities are formed to sell a product or a service.
Legal status describes the legal rights, duties and obligations of a person or entity, or a subset of those rights and obligations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term may be used to describe a person's legal condition with respect to personal rights, but excluding proprietary relations, such as their having the status of a spouse.
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a unique global identifier for legal entities participating in financial transactions. [1] Also known as an LEI code or LEI number, its purpose is to help identify legal entities on a globally accessible database.
A public benefit corporation is a legal entity that is organized and taxed as either an S corporation or C corporation. A S or C corporation will not change its tax status upon transferring to a public benefit corporation, while an LLC, partnership or sole proprietorship will have to.
In jurisprudence, a natural person (also physical person in some Commonwealth countries, or natural entity) is a person (in legal meaning, i.e., one who has its own legal personality) that is an individual human being, distinguished from the broader category of a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.
As a business entity, an LLC is often more flexible than a corporation and may be well-suited for companies with a single owner. [5] Although LLCs and corporations both possess some analogous features, the basic terminology commonly associated with each type of legal entity, at least within the United States, is sometimes different.
The term juridical person ("pessoa jurídica" in Portuguese) is used in legal science for designating an entity with rights and liabilities which also has legal personality. Its regulations are largely based on Brazil's Civil Code, where it is distinctly recognized and defined, among other normative documents.
A corporation or body corporate is an individual or a group of people, such as an association or company, that has been authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.