7.2 Kinds of Person

7.2.1 Natural Person A natural person is a living human being to whom the law attributes legal personality. Personality begins at birth (a live birth — registration of birth, not conception, is the general rule) and ends at death. Within that span, capacity may be limited: minority (a minor can own property but has limited capacity to contract), insanity, and similar conditions restrict legal capacity without destroying personality. Slavery (a human without legal personality) and civil death (a living person stripped of personality — the convict's historical fate) are the historical proofs that personality is law's gift, not nature's — and their abolition is law's own moral progress. 7.2.2 Legal Person (Juridical/Artificial Person) A legal person is a non-human entity clothed with legal personality — capable of rights and duties, of suing and being sued in its own name, with perpetual (or at least term) existence distinct from its members. Contrasted with natural persons (7.5 below gives the theories). Consequences of juridical personality (the bundle): Distinct existence: the corporation's property is not its members' property; its debts are not its members' debts; Perpetual succession: changes in membership (death, transfer of shares) do not affect its existence — "members may come and members may go, but the corporation goes on forever"; Common seal / registered name as its signature; Limited liability…