Natural Person
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A Natural Person is a conscious human with legal status.
- Context:
- They can (typically) make Personal Choices.
- They can (typically) be a Moral Human Being (be able to perform moral reasoning).
- They can (typically) be a Named Person.
- They can (often) be in a Social Relationship (with another person), such as a Friendship Relationship or a Familial Relationship.
- They can (often) be in an Institutional Relationship (with an organization), such as a worker or a consumer.
- They can (often) have a Person Role, such as Parent, Citizen, Employee, Customer, Subject Matter Expert, Political Leader, Judge, Teacher, Cook.
- They can range from being an Economically Secure Person to being an Economically Insecure Person.
- They can range from being an Inspired Person to being a Dispirited Person.
- They can be referenced by a Person Referencer.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Newborn Human, Adolescent Human, ...
- a Legal Person.
- a Jurical Person.
- a Fictional Person, such as “Gilgamesh”.
- See: Occupation, Human Being, Human Rights.
References
- http://schema.org/Person
- QUOTE: A person (alive, dead, undead, or fictional).
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/natural_person Retrieved:2015-7-6.
- In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.
In many cases, fundamental human rights are implicitly granted only to natural persons. For example, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states a person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender, or Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees equality rights, apply to natural persons only. Another example of the distinction between natural and legal persons is that a natural person can hold public office, but a corporation cannot.
A corporation or non-governmental organization can, however, file a lawsuit or own property as a legal person.
- In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.