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Artificial
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ArtificialWhat is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person.
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Corporation
A legal entity, allowed by legislation, which permits a group of people, as shareholders (for-profit companies) or members (non-profit companies), to create an organization, which can then focus on pursuing set objectives, and empowered with legal rights which are usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money. Also known as a "company." The primary advantage of for profit corporations is that it provides its shareholders with a right to participate in the profits (by dividends) without any personal liability because the company absorbs the entire liability of the organization.
Artificial
What is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Opposition
practice. The act of a creditor who, declares his dissent to a debtor's being discharged under the insolvent laws.
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Articles
1) A division in some books. In agreements and other writings, for the sake of perspicuity, the subjects are divided into parts, paragraphs, or articles. 2) Ecclesiastical law. A complaint in the form of a libel, ex hibited to an ecclesiastical court.
Articles of association
The Articles of Association contain the internal regulations and bye-laws covering procedure, shares, meetings, directors and other administrative issues and is commonly based on Table A.
Articles of impeachment
An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a common criminal case, is known by this name.
Articles of the peace
English practice. An instrument which is presented to a court of competent jurisdiction, in which the exhibitant shows the grievances under which be labors, and prays the protection of the court.
Articles of war
The name commonly given to a code made for the government of the army.
Articulate adjudication
A term used in Scotch, law in cases where there is more than the debt due to the adjudging creditor, when it is usual to accumulate each debt by itself, so that any error that may arise in ascertaining one of the debts need not reach to all the rest.
Artificers
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts.
Artificial general average
This is a term coined by Leslie J. Buglass to refer to general average claimed under the York/Antwerp Rules, despite the absence of one of the basic historic characteristics of general average.
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
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Articles of impeachment
An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a common criminal case, is known by this name.
Articles of the peace
English practice. An instrument which is presented to a court of competent jurisdiction, in which the exhibitant shows the grievances under which be labors, and prays the protection of the court.
Articles of war
The name commonly given to a code made for the government of the army.
Articulate adjudication
A term used in Scotch, law in cases where there is more than the debt due to the adjudging creditor, when it is usual to accumulate each debt by itself, so that any error that may arise in ascertaining one of the debts need not reach to all the rest.
Artificers
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts.
Artificial
Artificial general average
This is a term coined by Leslie J. Buglass to refer to general average claimed under the York/Antwerp Rules, despite the absence of one of the basic historic characteristics of general average.
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
As
1) First, it signifies weight, and in this sense, the Roman as, is the same thing as the Roman pound, which was composed of twelve ounces. 2) From this primitive and proper sense of the word another was derived: that namely of the totality of a thing, Solidum quid.
Ascendants
Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be.
Ascriptitius
Civil law. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners, who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives.
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Corporation
A legal entity, allowed by legislation, which permits a group of people, as shareholders (for-profit companies) or members (non-profit companies), to create an organization, which can then focus on pursuing set objectives, and empowered with legal rights which are usually only reserved for individuals, such as to sue and be sued, own property, hire employees or loan and borrow money. Also known as a "company." The primary advantage of for profit corporations is that it provides its shareholders with a right to participate in the profits (by dividends) without any personal liability because the company absorbs the entire liability of the organization.
Artificial
What is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Opposition
practice. The act of a creditor who, declares his dissent to a debtor's being discharged under the insolvent laws.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Articles
1) A division in some books. In agreements and other writings, for the sake of perspicuity, the subjects are divided into parts, paragraphs, or articles. 2) Ecclesiastical law. A complaint in the form of a libel, ex hibited to an ecclesiastical court.
Articles of association
The Articles of Association contain the internal regulations and bye-laws covering procedure, shares, meetings, directors and other administrative issues and is commonly based on Table A.
Articles of impeachment
An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a common criminal case, is known by this name.
Articles of the peace
English practice. An instrument which is presented to a court of competent jurisdiction, in which the exhibitant shows the grievances under which be labors, and prays the protection of the court.
Articles of war
The name commonly given to a code made for the government of the army.
Articulate adjudication
A term used in Scotch, law in cases where there is more than the debt due to the adjudging creditor, when it is usual to accumulate each debt by itself, so that any error that may arise in ascertaining one of the debts need not reach to all the rest.
Artificers
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts.
Artificial general average
This is a term coined by Leslie J. Buglass to refer to general average claimed under the York/Antwerp Rules, despite the absence of one of the basic historic characteristics of general average.
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Articles of impeachment
An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, is used, and performs the same office which an indictment does, in a common criminal case, is known by this name.
Articles of the peace
English practice. An instrument which is presented to a court of competent jurisdiction, in which the exhibitant shows the grievances under which be labors, and prays the protection of the court.
Articles of war
The name commonly given to a code made for the government of the army.
Articulate adjudication
A term used in Scotch, law in cases where there is more than the debt due to the adjudging creditor, when it is usual to accumulate each debt by itself, so that any error that may arise in ascertaining one of the debts need not reach to all the rest.
Artificers
Persons whose employment or business consists chiefly of bodily labor. Those who are masters of their arts.
Artificial
Artificial general average
This is a term coined by Leslie J. Buglass to refer to general average claimed under the York/Antwerp Rules, despite the absence of one of the basic historic characteristics of general average.
Artificial person
In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons.
As
1) First, it signifies weight, and in this sense, the Roman as, is the same thing as the Roman pound, which was composed of twelve ounces. 2) From this primitive and proper sense of the word another was derived: that namely of the totality of a thing, Solidum quid.
Ascendants
Those from whom a person is descended, or from whom he derives his birth, however remote they may be.
Ascriptitius
Civil law. Among the Romans, ascriptitii were foreigners, who had been naturalized, and who had in general the same rights as natives.
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