PERSON

person. 1. A human being. — Also termed natural person.

absent person. Louisiana law. A person who has no representative in the state and whose whereabouts are not known and cannot be ascertained by diligent effort. La. Civ. Code art. 47.

adult disabled person. A child over the age of 18 for whom a parent continues to have a duty of support.

associated person. See ASSOCIATED PERSON.

disabled person. A person who has a mental or physical impairment. See DISABILITY.

disappeared person. See DISAPPEARED PERSON.

interested person. A person having a property right in or claim against a thing, such as a trust or decedent’s estate. • The meaning may expand to include an entity, such as a business that is a creditor of a decedent. — Abbr. IP.

person in loco parentis (in loh-koh p<<schwa>>-ren-tis). A person who acts in place of a parent, either temporarily (as a schoolteacher does) or indefinitely (as a stepparent does); a person who has assumed the obligations of a parent without formally adopting the child. See IN LOCO PARENTIS. [Cases: Parent and Child  15. C.J.S. Parent and Child §§ 345–350, 357–358.] person in need of supervision.See child in need of supervision under CHILD. — Abbr. PINS.

person of incidence. The person against whom a right is enforceable; a person who owes a legal duty. • The meaning may expand to include an entity, such as an insurance company.

person of inherence (in-heer-<<schwa>>nts). The person in whom a legal right is vested; the owner of a right. • The meaning may expand to include an entity.

person of interest. A person who is the subject of a police investigation but who has not been identified by investigators as being suspected of committing the crime itself.

person not deceased. A person who is either living or not yet born.

person of opposite sex sharing living quarters. See POSSLQ.

person with ordinary skill in the art. See PERSON WITH ORDINARY SKILL IN THE ART.

private person. 1. A person who does not hold public office or serve in the military. 2.Civil law. An entity such as a corporation or partnership that is governed by private law.

protected person. 1. A person for whom a conservator has been appointed or other protective order has been made. [Cases: Guardian and Ward  9.5, 17; Mental Health  104. C.J.S. Insane Persons§ 111.] 2.Int’l law. A person who is protected by a rule of international law; esp., one who is in the hands of an occupying force during a conflict. • Protected persons are entitled to a standard of treatment (including a prohibition on coercion and corporal punishment) by the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949). 3.English law. An inhabitant of a protectorate of the United Kingdom. • Though not a British subject, such a person is given diplomatic protection by the Crown.

2. The living body of a human being <contraband found on the smuggler’s person>.3. An entity (such as a corporation) that is recognized by law as having the rights and duties of a human being. • In this sense, the term includes partnerships and other associations, whether incorporated or unincorporated.“So far as legal theory is concerned, a person is any being whom the law regards as capable of rights and duties. Any being that is so capable is a person, whether a human being or not, and no being that is not so capable is a person, even though he be a man. Persons are the substances of which rights and duties are the attributes. It is only in this respect that persons possess juridical significance, and this is the exclusive point of view from which personality receives legal recognition.” John Salmond, Jurisprudence 318 (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947).

artificial person. An entity, such as a corporation, created by law and given certain legal rights and duties of a human being; a being, real or imaginary, who for the purpose of legal reasoning is treated more or less as a human being. • An entity is a person for purposes of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses but is not a citizen for purposes of the Privileges and Immunities Clauses in Article IV, § 2, and in the Fourteenth Amendment. — Also termed fictitious person; juristic person; juridical person; legal person; moral person. Cf. LEGAL ENTITY. [Cases: Corporations 1.1(2). C.J.S. Corporations § 2.] control person.See CONTROL PERSON.

fictitious person. See artificial person.

international person. See INTERNATIONAL PERSON.

juridical person. See artificial person.

juristic person.See artificial person.

legal person.See artificial person.

moral person.See artificial person.

private person.Civil law. See private person (2) under PERSON(1).

[Blacks Law 8th]