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In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. The reason for the term "legal person" is that some legal persons are not people: companies and corporations are "persons" legally speaking , but they are not people in a literal sense.
There are therefore two kinds of legal entities: human and non-human. In law, a human person is called a natural person , and a non-human person is called a juridical person.
Juridical persons are entities such as corporations, firms , and many government agencies. They are treated in law as if they were persons.
While natural persons acquire legal personality "naturally", simply by being born , juridical persons must have legal personality conferred on them by some "unnatural", legal process, and it is for this reason that they are sometimes called "artificial" persons. In the most common case , legal personality is usually acquired by registration with a government agency set up for the purpose. In other cases it may be by primary legislation: an example is the Charity Commission in the UK. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16 advocates for the provision of legal identity for all, including birth registration by 2030 as part of the 2030 Agenda.