legal person

English

Noun

legal person (plural legal persons)

1. (law) An aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.

Synonyms

• artificial person
• fictitious person
• (Louisiana, Philippines): juridical person
• (South Africa): juristic person

Antonyms

• natural person

Translations

organization or group of people

• Afrikaans: regspersoon
• Bulgarian: юридическо лице n (juridičesko lice), правно лице (pravno lice), правна особа f (pravna osoba)
• Catalan: persona jurídica (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 法人 (zh) (fǎrén)

• Czech: právnická osoba f
• Dutch: rechtspersoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: jura persono
• Finnish: oikeushenkilö (fi)
• French: personne morale (fr) f
• German: juristische Person (de) f
• Greek: νομικό πρόσωπο (el) n (nomikó prósopo)
• Hungarian: jogi személy (hu)
• Indonesian: badan hukum (id)
• Italian: persona giuridica f
• Japanese: 法人 (ja) (ほうじん, hōjin)
• Kazakh: заңды тұлға (zañdy tūlğa)
• Khmer: នីតិបុគ្គល (km) (niite’ bokkʊəl)
• Korean: 법인(法人) (ko) (beobin)
• Latin: persona iuridica f, persona moralis f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: juridisk person m, rettssubjekt (no) n

  Nynorsk: juridisk person m

• Persian: شخص حقوقی (šaxs-e hoquqi)
• Polish: osoba prawna (pl) f
• Portuguese: pessoa jurídica (pt) f, pessoa moral f
• Romanian: persoană juridică (ro) f, persoană morală (ro) f
• Russian: юриди́ческое лицо́ (ru) n (juridíčeskoje licó)
• Spanish: persona moral f
• Thai: นิติบุคคล (th) (ní-dtì-bùk-kon)
• Turkish: tüzel kişi (tr)
• Vietnamese: nhân cách pháp lý
• Welsh: person artiffisial m