A human being, naturally born, versus a legally generated juridical person .
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POSSESSION NATURAL
a term that is used when a person physically occupies a property without having the title to it.
NATURAL-BORN
the term applying to the person who is born in the country where they are a citizen.
JURIDICAL PERSON
Entity, as a firm, that is not a single natural person , as a human being, authorized by law with duties and rights, recognized as a legal authority having a distinct identity, a legal personality . Also known as artificial person , juridical entity, juristic person, or legal person. Also refer to body corporate .
DENATURALIZE
the term that is used in order to deprive a person of their citizenship .
ARTIFICIAL PERSONS
Persons created and devised by human laws for the purposes of society and government, as distinguished from natural persons. Corporations are examples of artificial persons . 1 HI. Comm. 123. Chapman v. Brewer, 43 Neb. 800, 02 N. W. 320, 47 Am. St. Rep. 770 ; Smith v. Trust Co., 4 Ala. 508.
INDIVIDUAL
As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership , corporation , or association ; but it is said that this restrictive signi- fication is not necessarily inherent in tbe word, and that it may, in proper cases, include artificial persons . See Bank of U. S. v. State, 12 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 400; State v. Bell Telephone Co.. 30 Ohio St. 310, 38 Am. Rep. 583; Pennsylvania it. Co. v. Canal Com’rs, 21 Pa. 20. As an adjective, ” individual ” means pertaining or belonging to , or characteristic of, one single person, either in opposition to a firm, association, or corporation, or considered in his relation thereto.
ENS LEGIS
L Lat. A creature of the law; an artificial being, as contrasted with anatural person. Applied to corporations, considered as deriving their existence entirely from the law.
ANCESTOR
One who has preceded another in a direct line of descent; a lineal ascendant. A former possessor; the person last seised. Termes de la Ley ; 2 Bl. Comm. 201. A deceased person from whom another has inherited land. A former possessor. Bailey v. Bailey, 25 Mich. 1S5; McCarthy v. Marsh. 5 N. Y. 275; Springer v. Fortune, 2 Handy, (Ohio.) 52. In this sense a child may be the “ancestor” of his deceased parent. or one brother the “ancestor” of another. Lavery v. Egnn, 143 Mass. 389, 9 N. E. 747: Murphy v. Henry. 35 Ind. 450. The term differs from ” predecessor ,” in that it is applied to a natural person and his progenitors, while the latter is applied also to a corporation and those who have hold offices before those who now fill them. Co. Litt 786.
AGGREGATE AND SOLE
A corporation sole is one consisting of one person only, and his successors in some . particular station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity , which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense, the sovereign in England is a sole corporation , so is a bishop, so are some deans distinct from their several chapters, and so is every parson and vicar. 3 Steph. Comm. 168. 169; 2 Kent, Comm. 273. Warner v. Beers, 23 Wend. (N. Y.) 172; Codd v. Itathbone. 19 N. Y. 39; First Parish v. Dunning, 7 Mass. 447. A corporation aggregate is one composed of a number of individuals vested with corporate powers; and a “corporation,” as the word is used in general popular and legal speech, and as defined at the head of this title, means a “corporation aggregate.”