Doctrines about who can hold rights and who answers to creditors: natural and juridical persons, corporate law, successor liability, creditors' rights, bona fide purchasers, the decennial liability of builders, slavery at common law, and the rules on secret profits and officious intermeddlers. A doctrine belongs here when its cited article describes a rule on legal personality, creditors or liability for dealings. It excludes land and family property.
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Bona fide purchaser (Wikipedia)
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A bona fide purchaser (BFP), referred to more completely as a bona fide purchaser for value without notice, is a term used predominantly in common law jurisdictions in the law of real property and personal property to refer to an innocent party who purchases property without notice of any other party's claim to the title of that property.
Corporate law (Wikipedia)
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Corporate law (also known as company law or enterprise law) is the body of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations, and businesses.
Creditor (Wikipedia)
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A creditor or lender is a party (e.g., person, organization, company, or government) that has a claim on the services of a second party.
Decennial liability (Wikipedia)
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Decennial liability insurance or "Inherent Defect Insurance" is insurance that is taken out (by the contractor or principal) to cover costs associated with the potential collapse of a building after completion.
Juridical person (Wikipedia)
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A juridical person is a legal person that is not a natural person but an organization recognized by law as a fictitious person such as a corporation, government agency, non-governmental organization, or international organization (such as the European Union).
Natural person (Wikipedia)
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In jurisprudence, a natural person (also physical person in some Commonwealth countries, or natural entity) is a person (in legal meaning, i.e., one who has its own legal personality) that is an individual human being, distinguished from the broader category of a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity or non-governmental organization) or public (i.e., government) organization.
Officious intermeddler (Wikipedia)
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An officious intermeddler is a person who voluntarily, and without request or pre-existing legal duty, interjects themself into the affairs of another, and then seeks remuneration for services or reimbursement.
Secret profit (Wikipedia)
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In English law, a secret profit is a profit made by an employee who uses his employer's premises and business facilities in order to engage in unauthorised trade on his own behalf.
Slavery at common law (Wikipedia)
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Slavery at common law in the British Empire developed slowly over centuries, and was characterised by inconsistent decisions and varying rationales for the treatment of slavery, the slave trade, and the rights of slaves and slave owners.
Successor liability (Wikipedia)
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In law, successor liability is liability (debt or other obligation) that is inherited by a successor entity after a corporate restructuring.
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