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In law, a legal entity is an entity that is capable of bearing legal rights and obligations, such as a natural person or an artificial person (e.g. business entity or a corporate entity). In politics, entity is used as term for territorial divisions of some countries (e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Ontology is the study of being. It is the branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of existence, the features all entities have in common, and how they are divided into basic categories of being. [1]
A business entity is an entity that is formed and administered as per corporate law [Note 1] ... unless it contravenes the Act on the Conservation of Nature, ...
A central dispute in the academic discourse about the nature of existence is whether existence is a property of individuals. [73] An individual is a unique entity, like Socrates or a particular apple. A property is something that is attributed to an entity, like "being human" or "being red", and usually expresses a quality or feature of that ...
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.
In certain contexts, it may be socially inappropriate to apply the word object to animate beings, especially to human beings, while the words entity and being are more acceptable. Some authors use object in contrast to property; that is to say, an object is an entity that is not a property. Objects differ from properties in that objects cannot ...
Campbell defined entitativity as "the degree of having the nature of an entity," which distinguishes a true group from a mere collection of individuals. [2]: 17 He introduced the term to explain why some groups, such as families or teams, are perceived as "real" groups, whereas others, like people waiting in line, are seen as loose aggregates.
Rights of nature or Earth rights is a legal and jurisprudential theory that describes inherent rights as associated with ecosystems and species, similar to the concept of fundamental human rights. The rights of nature concept challenges twentieth-century laws as generally grounded in a flawed frame of nature as "resource" to be owned, used, and ...