A summary of: Defining words and concepts.
Notes from Law of Persons (LAWS1013A at Wits University). A comprehensive summary of the topic content - including diagrams, definitions and explanations where applicable.
Defining words and concepts in
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What is a person
The law defines a person as someone or something that can have legal rights and
duties. Being, entity, association that is capable of having legal rights and duties
entities → artificial/juristic person (banks, universities, companies)
Legal person = legal subject
Legal personality: The quality of being a person (aka legal subjectivity)
importance of being a legal person; the law recognises that you can have legal rights
and duties
What are rights, duties and legal options?
Classes of rights
1. Physical things. Object of right is physical (house, car, pencils) → real right
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