natural person
Let an agent explain the concept of the natural person in law and its contrast with legal persons, describe legal capacity and status categories such as citizen and foreigner neutrally, and route personal legal questions to professionals.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the concept of the natural person in law and its contrast with legal persons, describe legal capacity and status categories such as citizen and foreigner neutrally, and route personal legal questions to professionals.
In law, an individual human being as a bearer of rights and duties, as distinct from a legal person such as a corporation, with legal capacity from birth and personality recognised regardless of nationality, so that categories such as citizen, foreigner, foreign worker, foreign student and metic describe statuses of natural persons; the concept underlies civil, contract, family and human rights law and is used in data protection and identification systems.
What it is for: Individual humans as legal subjects.
It can be explain the concept; contrast with legal persons; describe status categories neutrally; route legal questions.
Distinguishing features
Human individual
Legal capacity
Rights and duties
Status categories
What it looks like
Not physical as a concept; every human being.
How it is recognised
Human being with legal personality
Contrast with corporations
A legal person may be a company or state body
Related models
is a kind of - category
is a kind of - category
is related to - capacity and guardianship
is related to - nationals of a state
In practice
Families and kinds
natural persons with full capacity
minors and persons under guardianship
citizens and nationals
foreigners, foreign workers and students
stateless persons
Standards and regulation
Civil codes and common law on legal personality
Human rights instruments
Data protection law definitions
Failure modes and hazards
Agents giving personal legal advice
Dehumanising language about foreigners
Confusing natural and legal persons
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand The concept.
Law.
Concept
Natural and legal persons.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a natural person in law, and how does the concept differ from a legal person? definition
- Is the user asking about a personal legal situation, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Capacity
Legal capacity.
Capacity
Capacity.
- When does legal personality begin and end, and how does capacity vary with age and guardianship? provenance
- Which entry fits legal capacity? action
Status Status categories.
Attribution.
Nationality
Citizens and foreigners.
Nationality
Nationality.
- How do citizen, national, foreigner, foreign worker and foreign student statuses differ in rights, and how are they described neutrally? provenance
- Is the language respectful and non-dehumanising? boundary
History
Historical statuses.
History
History.
- What were historical statuses such as the metic in ancient Athens, and how did legal personhood expand over time, according to historians? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific historical status? action
Apply Natural persons in systems.
Practice.
Data
Data protection.
Data
Data.
- How do data protection laws define natural persons, and what follows for personal data? provenance
- Which entry fits data protection? action
Identity
Identification.
Identity
Identification.
- How are natural persons identified in registers and identity systems? provenance
- Which entry fits civil registration? action
Learn Thought and teaching.
Education.
Philosophy
Personhood in thought.
Philosophy
Philosophy.
- How have philosophers and jurists debated personhood and its scope, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can the natural person concept be taught in law? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should legal capacity be a separate entry?
- How should national laws be linked?
- How should status terms be documented neutrally?