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Just as a Sovereign must have subjects or a State its citizens, each legal system must have persons who are subject to its laws. If a person, or a group of persons, has ‘legal personality’, it means that he is subject to the laws of a particular legal system. The rules of each legal system will lay down the types of persons whom it considers should possess ‘legal personality’. The English legal system recognises not only human beings but also some ‘artificial persons’ as having ‘legal personality’.
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© 1979 James Dunbar-Brunton
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Dunbar-Brunton, J. (1979). Persons Subject to the Law. In: The Law and the Individual. Macmillan Texts for Business Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04532-7_6
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