The question (15 marks)
What is legal personality? Discuss the legal status of animals, unborn persons and dead persons, and state the theories of corporate personality. (15 marks)
MU Module 4, heads on the nature of personality and the theories of corporate personality.
Plan your answer on paper before you look at the authorities — issue first, then the rule, then apply it to these facts.
It tests Unit 4 · Rights, Persons, Property and Possession of Jurisprudence / Legal Theory.
Authorities you will need
- Gray, on the definition of a person
- Salmond, on animals and on dead men
- Paton, on the child in the womb
- Savigny, Gierke, Jhering, Bekker and von Brinz, Hohfeld and Kelsen, on corporate personality
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