# Personhood Allocation **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Theory / Status **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in legal personhood doctrine ## Definition **Personhood Allocation** is the legal process by which rights, duties, standing, dignity interests, property limits, and recognition are assigned to an entity or class. ## Continuity Significance It prevents the misleading idea that law merely discovers personhood; law often allocates different bundles for different purposes. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Natural persons, corporations, embryos, estates, animals, natural entities, ships, and other legal objects demonstrate varied status techniques. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Legal allocation and moral status are related but not identical. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Epipersonhood|Epipersonhood]] · [[wiki/Asymmetrical Personhood|Asymmetrical Personhood]] · [[wiki/Rights-Bearing Computational Subject|Rights-Bearing Computational Subject]] · [[wiki/Legal Personality|Legal Personality]]