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Definition of a Legal Entity

I am currently involved with a project involving the data protection act. Within this it staes that in order to register you are required to be a LEGAL ENTITY and the question is what is this. Can a group of people be called a legal entity. What action creates a legal entity


Asked on 9/21/04, 8:39 am

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Volker Hirsch RA Hirsch

Re: Definition of a Legal Entity

A legal entity is any person, proprietorship, partnership or corporation which has the legal capacity to enter into an agreement or contract and sue and be sued separately from its members. In other words, it must be an organization that can function with separate legal existence.

Therefore, a lose group of individuals would not normally constitute a legal entity since all of them would have to enter into agreements together and sue or be sued jointly.

The most common types of legal entities are probably companies.

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Answered on 9/21/04, 8:56 am


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