juridical person, legal person (any organization that is not a single natural person but is authorized by law with duties and rights and is recognized as a legal person and as having a distinct identity)
köken: From นิติ (ní-dtì, “law”) + บุคคล (bùk-kon, “person”); calque of English legal person; ultimately calque of Japanese 法人 (literally “law person”), a term in the Japanese Civil Code, on which the Siamese Civil and Commercial Code was based; perhaps first used in the revised Book 1 of the Siamese Civil and Commercial Code, promulgated on 11 November 1925; formerly known as บุคคลนิติสมมติ…