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Old 03-06-2004, 06:47 AM
Jim
 
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Re:Virginia sure made this easy!



Randy,


Well, there might be just a little something missing.


Indiviidual: As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from a 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 not necessarily inherent in the word, and that it may, in proper cases, include artificial persons. State v. Bell Telephone Co., 36 Ohio St. 310, 38 Am.Rep. 538.


So the word "person" in Virginia must be a legal entity if nothing else than by association. Note the last phrase "other legal entity".


But, "individual" means all natural persons...


So your "Therefore:" makes sense only <U>IF</U> "natural person" makes sense. But by their own definitions "natural person" MUST be an oxymoron. Thus that '"individual" means...' paragraph is a red herring.


Jim
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