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  2. Legal person - Wikipedia

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    In law, a human person is called a natural person (sometimes also a physical person), and a non-human person is called a juridical person (sometimes also a juridic, juristic, artificial, legal, or fictitious person, Latin: persona ficta). Juridical persons are entities such as corporations, firms (in some jurisdictions), and many government ...

  3. Legal relationship - Wikipedia

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    A legal relationship, jural relationship, or legal relation is a connection between two persons or other entities that is governed by law. [1] A legal relationship may exist, for example, between two individuals or between an individual and a government. Legal relationships often imply rights and obligations.

  4. Juridical person - Wikipedia

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    A juridical person maintains certain duties and rights as enumerated under relevant laws. [1] [2] 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 ...

  5. List of legal entity types by country - Wikipedia

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    s.c. (spółka cywilna): "civil law partnership", itself neither a proper legal entity nor a juridical person, as it is the partners (natural persons) who retain their separate statuses as entrepreneurs and legal entities, albeit bound by an agreement on the sharing of profits, losses and ownership of a business (common pool of assets).

  6. Glossary of law - Wikipedia

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    At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...

  7. Judicial review - Wikipedia

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    Judicial review can be understood in the context of two distinct—but parallel—legal systems, civil law and common law, and also by two distinct theories of democracy regarding the manner in which government should be organized with respect to the principles and doctrines of legislative supremacy and the separation of powers.

  8. A Theory of Legal Order - Wikipedia

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    Unity of legal order;sources of law; the grundnorm; law and force. Cohesiveness of the legal order; solution of conflicts between norms. Completeness of legal order; the problem of gaps of law; analogy. Relationships between different legal orders, in different countries or in the same country in different times; different legal orders in the ...

  9. Legal transaction - Wikipedia

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    A legal transaction or transactional act (German: Rechtsgeschäft, literally ‘legal business’; Latin: negotium juridicum), under German jurisprudence, is the main type of lawful legal act (also known as an act-in-the-law, act at law, or juridical act) ‘by which legal subjects can change the legal positions of themselves or other persons intentionally’. [1]