Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Personality

The legal status of one regarded by the law as a person; the legal conception by which the law regards a human being or an artificial entity as a person. - Also termed legal personality. "Legal personality refers to the particular device by which the law creates or recognizes units to which it ascribes certain powers and capacities." George Whitecross Paton, A Textbook of Jurisprudence 393 (G.W. Paton & David P. Derham eds., 4th ed. 1972).

legal personality

See PERSONALITY,