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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by dragonwriter on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:59PM (#19723901)
> Basically, what's the benefit of having this single category where everything gets lumped?

It's the category of things that have legally cognizable interests, which is arguably the most important category for law.

It's named “persons” because persons in the boring common sense were originally the only members of he category.

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