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In law, a legal person is any person or legal entity that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] The reason for the term "legal person" is that some legal persons are not human persons: companies and corporations (i.e., business entities) are persons legally speaking (they can legally do most of the things an ordinary person can do), but they are not, in a literal sense, human beings.

Legal personhood is a prerequisite to legal capacity (the ability of any legal person to amend – i.e. enter into, transfer, etc. – rights and obligations), it is a prerequisite for an international organization to be able to sign international treaties in its own name.

^ Lewis A. Kornhauser and W. Bentley MacLeod (June 2010). "Contracts between Legal Persons". National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper Series. doi:10.3386/w16049. S2CID 35849538. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
^ Elizabeth A. Martin (2003). Oxford Dictionary of Law (7th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198607563.
^ Smith, Bryant (January 1928). "Legal Personality". Yale Law Journal. 37 (3): 283–299. doi:10.2307/789740. JSTOR 789740.
^ Anonymous (19 August 2010). "Entity". LII / Legal Information Institute. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
^ Black, Henry Campbell; Garner, Bryan Andrew (2009). Black's law dictionary (9th ed.). St. Paul, Minn: West. p. 976. ISBN 978-0314199492.