Natural person

In jurisprudence, a natural person, also called a physical person in some Commonwealth countries or a natural entity, is a person in the legal sense, meaning one who has their own legal personality, that is an individual human being, distinguished from the broader category of a legal person, which may be a private business entity or non-governmental organization, or a public government organization. Historically, a human being was not necessarily considered a natural person in some jurisdictions where slavery existed, since an enslaved person was treated as the subject of a property right rather than as a person. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/