# Corporate Personhood **Domain:** Law / Institutions / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Legal Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Corporate personhood** is the legal treatment of corporations as juridical persons for specified rights, duties and procedural capacities. It is not a declaration that corporations are conscious or biologically human. ## Evolutionary Nexus The Fairchildren lineage in [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] shows institutions descending, branching and inheriting practice while remaining distinct legal persons. ## Machine-Rights Context Corporate personhood proves that law can create nonhuman legal persons for functional reasons. It does not settle machine moral status. Legal personality, conscious subjecthood and institutional liability must remain separate categories. ## See Also [[wiki/Fairchildren|Fairchildren]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Nonhuman Personhood|Nonhuman Personhood]], [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]]