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Person, Individual
For your consideration:
A "person" - maxim - Homo vocabulum est naturae; persona juris civilis 'man' is a term of nature; 'person' is a term of civil law.& Black's 4th, "PERSON" Term may include <U>artificial beings</U>, as corporations... relating to taxation and the revenue laws. People vs. Mclean, 80 N.Y. 254. <U>A person is such, not because he is human, but because rights and duties are ascribed</U> to him.& The person is a legal subject or substance of which the rights and duties are attributes.
Black's 4th "INDIVIDUAL" As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or association; but it is said that this restrictive signification is <U>not necessarily inherent in the word, and that it may, in proper cases include artificial persons</U>. State vs. Bell Telephone Co. 36 Ohio St. 310 Am. Rep. 583. As an adjective, "individual" means pertaining or belonging to, or characteristic of, one single person, either in opposition to a firm, association, or corporation, or considered in his relation thereto.
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