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A legal entity is a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if they were a single person for certain purposes. The most common purposes are lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts.
A legal entity is not always something else than the natural persons of which it is composed as one can see with a company or corporation.
Some examples of legal entities include:
- companies
- cooperatives (co-ops)
- corporations
- municipalities
- natural persons
- political parties
- sovereigns
- states
- temples, in some legal systems, have separate legal personality[1]
- trade unions
- ship or vessel
- ↑ Williams v The Shipping Corporation of India (US District Court, Eastern District Virginia), 10 March 1980, 63 ILR 363