Difference between revisions of "Legal Person"

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Full Title or Meme

A Legal Person is a real-world entity that has legal standing in a jurisdiction.

Context

• Typically a Natural Person, or Carbon-based Life Form is a legal person.
• Depending on the legal jurisdiction, corporations, governmental entities and even (in Saudi Arabia) some artificial intelligences, or Silicon-based Life Forms are a legal persons.

Problems

• Legal names can be changed by the bearer or guardian and so cannot be relied upon to stay constant over time.
• Legal names are only valid in a legal jurisdiction, typically a sovereign state.
• Moving the bearer of the name to a region with a different alphabet will require some sort of transliteration of the name at a minimum.
• So the legal name could be different in different jurisdictions.
• [https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=wjsej Rights of Nature, Wrongs for the Commons: Risks of Assigning

Legal Personhood to the Rivers of Washington State] 2025

Solutions

• Recital 68 of the eIDAS Regulation of the EU states that Legal Persons are all of the entities constituted under, or governed by, the law of a Member State, irrespective of their legal form.
• User Objects should have a name (key) that is assigned when the object is created, and that should never be changed unless some error has occurred.
• Any other Identifier in the User Object should be changable under the right conditions.
• Each data control can decide for themselves whether they wish to track the legal status of the Subject of the database object that they track.

References

• Synonyms: Legal Name,Real Name, Subject