Differences between Natural Person and Legal Person || Jurisprudence ||
In this article, we are going to discuss, what are the differences between the Natural Person and Legal Person under legal personality in Jurisprudence.
Let’s begin.
Sr.
No.
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Natural
Person
|
Legal/Artificial
Person
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1.
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Natural
Person is a human being and is a real and living person.
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Legal Person is being, real or imaginary whom the law regards as capable of rights
and duties.
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2.
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He
has power of thought, speech, and choice.
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Legal Person has no such power of thought, speech and choice.
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3.
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He
is also a legal person and accordingly performs their functions.
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Legal
person perform their functions through natural persons only.
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4.
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These
are not considered as Natural person; unborn, dead man, and lower animals
etc.
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But
unborn, dead man, idiots, corporations, companies, idols, etc. are treated as
legal persons in law.
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5.
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Natural
person can live for a limited period. As per general presumption, he cannot
live more than 100 years.
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Legal
person can live more than 100 years even for indefinite period. Like “East
India Company” was established in sixteenth century in London, and now still
is in existence.
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6.
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Slaves
were also natural persons.
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In
older law, slaves were not recognized as persons.
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7.
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There
are no different varieties of natural person.
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There
are different varieties of legal persons, like Corporations, Companies, Universities,
President, Societies, Municipalities, Gram Panchayats, etc.
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