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legal person

Legal Definition of legal person

Noun

A body of persons or an entity (as a corporation) considered as having many of the rights and responsibilities of a natural person and especially the capacity to sue and be sued.

Noun

legal person (plural legal persons)

(law) An organisation or a group of people who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of an individual under the law.

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