Law of persons

Geoffrey Samuel ()

Chapter 6 in Principia Iuris, 2025, pp 104-115 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Turning from public to private law, the first generic category in the Gaius plan is the law of persons. This chapter thus looks at regulae concerned with specific issues within this generic category. These issues fall into three specific classes: legal personality (who qualifies as a ‘person’); legal status (legal position of a person in society); and personality rights (rights attaching to a person as a person). Within these three classes there are some detailed issues that require consideration. For example, the issue of legal personality raises legal questions about social groups such as partnerships which are not deemed ‘persons’; and there are questions about when a natural person ceases to be a person (time of death, disappearance, and, in the past, legal death). The notion of human rights falls within, at least to a certain extent, the law of persons.

Keywords: Action (class); Corporation; Death; Dignity; Liberty; Marriage; Partnership; Person; Privacy; Reputation; Status; Unborn children (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350568
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