the word "Person"
American Law and Procedure, Vol 13, page 137, 1910:
"This word `person' and its scope and bearing in the law, involving, as it does, legal fictions and also apparently natural beings, it is difficult to understand; but it is absolutely necessary to grasp, at whatever cost, a true and proper understanding to the word in all the phases of its proper use ... A person is here not a physical or individual person, but the status or condition with which he is invested... not an individual or physical person, but the status, condition or character borne by physical persons... The law of persons is the law of status or condition."
Natural (biological) people are not "persons" in most statutes.
Natural (biological) people are not "persons" in most statutes.
Black’s Law Dictionary, Second Edition, p. 577
Homo vocabulum est naturae; persona juris civillis. Man (homo) is a term of nature; person (persona) of civil law.
Black's Law Dictionary, 4th Edition, p 1300
A person is such, not because he is human, but because rights and duties are ascribed to him. The person is the legal subject or substance of which the rights and duties are attributes. An individual human being considered as having such attributes is what lawyers call a "natural person."
"A county is a person in a legal sense".... "but a sovereign is not"
"A county is a person in a legal sense".... "but a sovereign is not"