Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person
by dragonwriter on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:07PM
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> In the U.S. there's a term called "party" for whoever's suing or being sued. It can be a person or a combination of parties.
A party is a person who is a litigant in a lawsuit, to be a party, one must first be a legal person.
> Also in the U.S., the controversy about corporations being persons has to do with selectively granting them constitutional rights,
That's actually a controversy about a different kind of personhood than is being discussed (that is whether they are within the scope of “person” in the sense used in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment, which has been addressed not in terms of juridical personhood but in terms of the necessity of such to give effect to rights of natural persons acting through the corporation.)
Also in the U.S., the controversy about corporations being persons has to do with selectively granting them constitutional rights, not about their identity as human beings.