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Q.1
Q.1: Answer in short
20 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)Identify the kinds of legal persons.[2]
Answer
A person in law is any being that the law regards as capable of rights and duties (Salmond). Persons are of two broad kinds, and the second has several forms.
1. Natural persons. Living human beings. Personality begins at birth and ends at death.
2. Legal (artificial or juristic) persons. Beings other than humans to which the law gives personality.
- Corporation aggregate: a group of persons incorporated as one body, such as a registered company. In Salomon v. A. Salomon and Co. Ltd. [1897] AC 22, a company was held distinct from its members.
- Corporation sole: an office held by one person at a time, such as the Postmaster General.
- Institutions: a consecrated Hindu idol, and the Guru Granth Sahib installed in a gurdwara. In Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee v. Som Nath Dass, AIR 2000 SC 1421, the Guru Granth Sahib was held to be a juristic person.
- Funds or estates dedicated to a purpose.
- The State, which may sue and be sued under Article 300 of the Constitution.
Not a legal person. A partnership firm in India is only a collective name for its partners.
Common feature. A legal person acts only through human agents, and can do only what its constitution and the law allow.
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