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Jurisprudence

by John W. Salmond

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Summary

The nature of personality.
PersonsNatural.
Legal.
Natural persons—living human beings.
The legal status of beasts.
The legal status of dead men.
The legal status of unborn persons.
Double personality.
Legal persons.
Legal personality based on personification.
Personification without legal personality.
Classes of Legal persons1. Corporations.
2. Institutions.
3. Funds or Estates.
Corporations—the only legal persons known to English law.
Corporations aggregate and corporations sole.
The fiction involved in incorporation.
The beneficiaries of a corporation.
The representatives of a corporation.
The members of a corporation.
Authority of a corporation’s agents.
Liability of a corporation for wrongful acts.
The purposes of incorporation:
1. Reduction of collective to individual ownership and action.
2. Limited liability.
The creation and dissolution of corporations.
The personality of the state.

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