Artificial Person
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Artificial Person
A legal entity that is not a human being but for certain purposes is considered by virtue of statute to be a natural person.
A corporation is considered an artificial person for Service of Process.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ARTIFICIAL PERSON. In a figurative sense, a body of men or company are sometimes called an artificial person, because the law associates them as one, and gives them various powers possessed by natural persons. Corporations are such artificial persons. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 177.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.