In Salmond’s account, how does a corporation acquire legal personality?
Salmond treats a corporation as a legal person because the law attributes personality to it by a fiction. Its legal personality is distinct from the natural personalities of…
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In Salmond’s account, how does a corporation acquire legal personality?
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Correct answer A
Salmond treats a corporation as a legal person because the law attributes personality to it by a fiction. Its legal personality is distinct from the natural personalities of its members.
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Option A
Salmond explains that the law attributes a fictional legal personality to the corporation.
Option B
Salmond attributes legal personality to the corporation through recognition by law. The members’ agreement alone cannot explain it.
Option C
Salmond distinguishes natural personality from the fictional personality that the law attributes to a corporation.
Option D
The corporation’s separate legal personality does not depend on taking away the legal personality of its members.
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