legal entity

legal entity
legal entity n: an entity (as a corporation or labor union) having under the law rights and responsibilities and esp. the capacity to sue and be sued

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

legal entity
index corporation, corpus, partnership

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


legal entity
n. Anything other than a person that, by virtue of certain characteristics, is conferred with a status that it has certain rights or obligations, can sue or be sued.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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