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BODY POLITIC [3 records]

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Record 1 2024-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
DEF

Entities created by human laws, as opposed to natural persons. A corporation is an example of an artificial person.

CONT

Persons are of two kinds, natural and artificial. A natural person is a human being ... Artificial persons include a collection or succession of natural persons forming a corporation ...; and, in some systems, a collection of property to which the law attributes the capacity of having rights and duties.

OBS

Corporation does not include a partnership that is considered to be a separate legal entity under provincial law.

OBS

Body. IV. A corporate body, aggregate of individuals, collective mass. 14. Law. An artificial "person" created by legal authority for certain ends, a corporation, commonly a corporation aggregate, but also applied to a corporation sole ... Always with defining adj. (:) body corporate, body politic.

OBS

Terms which emphasize the notion's constituting a person by itself and as opposed to natural persons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
OBS

Entité dotée de la personnalité morale, à l'exclusion d'une société de personnes à laquelle le droit provincial reconnaît cette personnalité.

OBS

Le législateur au fédéral et en Ontario privilégie «personne morale» comme équivalent français de «corporation» mais au Nouveau-Brunswick et au Manitoba il préfère son homographe français «corporation».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos comerciales y otros (Derecho)
DEF

Persona de naturaleza legal.

CONT

persona jurídica: Toda persona es sujeto de derechos y obligaciones, y por ende jurídica. Ahora bien ... persona jurídica se refiere por un amplio sector de la doctrina, que el uso ha impuesto, a los sujetos de derechos y obligaciones que no son la persona natural o física.

OBS

persona jurídica y entidad con personalidad jurídica: Expresiones y contexto reproducidos del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 2 1999-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Constitutional Law
OBS

Body politic has also the wider sense of "organized society".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit constitutionnel
DEF

La collectivité des membres d'une nation, d'un État, considérée comme sujet et support d'un intérêt collectif.

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
DEF

the nation in its corporate character; the state.

OBS

A collective body, organized to carry out political functions ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif
OBS

(...) la corporation municipale est le corps politique, l'entité juridique ou la personne morale formée des habitants et des contribuables résidant dans le territoire érigé en municipalité.

Spanish

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