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juristic person

American  

noun

Law.
  1. person12


Etymology

Origin of juristic person

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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The village as a juristic person.

From Project Gutenberg

A. There are no shares; the capital is owned by the bank, which may be regarded as a juristic person, an independent legal subject.

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Property could only be left to an authorized juristic person, being a municipality or a collegium.

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Both the Bund and the Empire were creations, strictly speaking, of the states, not of the people; and, to this day, as one writer has put it, the Empire is "not a juristic person composed of fifty-six million members, but of twenty-five members."

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