LAWS 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Legal Personality, Caucasian Race, Higher Consciousness
16 Dec 2017
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Being a human being is not the criteria for being a legal person. Values underlying the new legal order (blackstone): liberty, security, property, society. Public/private division as it affected the reach of the legal person. Legal person as the basic unit in law. Pg 21 legal persons, being the arbitrary creations of the law, may be of as many . - salmond. Kocourek legal personality is the sum total of the legal relations of a person . the capacity of attracting legal relations . Capacity for legal relationships is an important concept- contract, engage in market, own property. Kelsen the legal person is a fiction, a device, a construct. Kelson, pg 21 a legal person is the unity of complex of legal obligations . created by the science of law . Tur, pg 22 a cluster conceptgroupings of rights and duties who content depends on such factors such as age, sex mental ability as well as legal purpose and jurisdiction .
