Natural persons are legal persons, but so are entities recognized as legal persons (like corporations and unincorporated associations). Legal persons is the larger term; natural persons are a subset of legal persons. Hope that's clearer. Rosemary -----Original Message----- From: accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org [mailto:accountability-cross-community-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Nigel Roberts Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 4:24 AM To: Holly Gregory Cc: accountability-cross-community@icann.org Subject: Re: [CCWG-ACCT] Concept of some form of "independent" member Then we have a terminology issue as that is not my understanding. Can you take me to authority for your interpretation, please? A legal person that is /not/ a natural person (i.e. a corporation, or other "juristic person". This article seems to be of the same mind :- http://www.publishyourarticles.net/knowledge-hub/law/what-are-the-difference... On 17/07/15 12:13, Gregory, Holly wrote:
Natural persons (humans) are legal persons
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Greg
I think this is incorrect. I find it hard to imagine a corporation (and, particularly a non-profit corporation) which is required by law to restrict membership to legal persons in this way, that is to *require* members to be legal persons.
I cannot believe US law is so fundamentally different here -- members of a corporation may normally be either natural persons or legal persons unless there are explicit restrictions in the Articles, which is a matter of choice, not compulsion.
(I can imagine a non-profit CHOOSING to restrict membership to one or the other but I can't imagine any statutory requirement of this nature.)
A trade association MIGHT restrict membership to legal persons: e.g. the Association of Incorporated Widget Makers (fictitious) may only allow incorporated makes of widgets; however it would be less unexpected to see non-profits expecting members to be natural persons only (e.g. the American Radio Relay League see http://www.arrl.org/arrl-by-laws).
Can you expand on this please?
On 17/07/15 09:47, Greg Shatan wrote:
hands of the community, and to have these powers as a matter of right. Members must be legal persons.
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