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  2. Juridical person - Wikipedia

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    A juridical person maintains certain duties and rights as enumerated under relevant laws. [1] The rights and responsibilities of a juridical person are distinct from those of the natural persons constituting it. Since the beginning of writing at the start of recorded history, associations have been known as the original form of the juridical ...

  3. Legal person - Wikipedia

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    A juridical or artificial person (Latin: persona ficta; also juristic person) has a legal name and has certain rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and liabilities in law, similar to those of a natural person. The concept of a juridical person is a fundamental legal fiction.

  4. Corporate personhood - Wikipedia

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    Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons.

  5. Law of persons in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    A juristic person is a social entity, a community or an association of people which has an independent right of existence under the law. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] It can be 'the bearer of judicial capacities and subjective rights,’ and the accompanying legal entitlements and obligations, just like a natural person.

  6. Public institution (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A public institution is a juristic person in the United States which is backed through public funds and controlled by the state. [1] [2] Typically a public institution will have a board of trustees who govern the institution and the members of the board are public officials who are appointed by the state (typically a person in the executive branch such as a state governor) for a fixed term of ...

  7. Capacity (law) - Wikipedia

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    Standardized classes of person have had their freedom restricted. These limitations are exceptions to the general policy of freedom of contract and the detailed human and civil rights that a person of ordinary capacity might enjoy. For example, freedom of movement may be modified, the right to vote may be withdrawn, etc. As societies have ...

  8. Judicial officer - Wikipedia

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    A judicial officer is a person with the responsibilities and powers to facilitate, arbitrate, preside over, and make decisions and directions with regard to the application of the law. [ 1 ] Judicial officers are typically categorized as judges , magistrates , puisne judicial officers such as justices of the peace or officers of courts of ...

  9. Chapter Two of the Constitution of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    In respect of the nature of the juristic person who is asserted to bear a constitutional right, existing case law suggests that the objectives or purpose of the juristic person are a decisive factor, partly because they may reveal a relationship between the juristic person and the natural persons who "stand behind" it and use it for the ...