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

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 P Legal Personhood t ersonhood to the Riv o the Rivers of W ers of Washingt ashington State on 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.

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