# Legal Personality **Domain:** Law / Personhood / Rights **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established legal concept; application to computational subjects unresolved ## Definition **Legal Personality** is recognition by a legal system that an entity can hold at least some rights, duties, powers, liabilities, or standing in its own name. ## Continuity Significance Legal personality determines whether a continuant can be a claimant rather than merely the object of another party's property, contract, or estate rights. It may be partial and purpose-specific rather than all-or-nothing. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Legal personality is not identical to moral personhood, consciousness, numerical identity, citizenship, or full human-rights status. Current recognition of corporations and other juridical persons does not itself establish personality for digital replicas or reconstructed humans. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Personhood Allocation|Personhood Allocation]] · [[wiki/Asymmetrical Personhood|Asymmetrical Personhood]] · [[wiki/Epipersonhood|Epipersonhood]] · [[wiki/Property-Person Boundary|Property-Person Boundary]] · [[wiki/Rights-Bearing Computational Subject|Rights-Bearing Computational Subject]]