Legal person systems in different countries have common characteristics, but their contents are different. Different legal persons have formed different legal person theories, and the theory of legal person system has become the theoretical basis for countries all over the world to establish and improve the legal person system, standardize the economic order and the whole social order.
According to the General Principles of Civil Law, legal persons can be divided into profit-making legal persons, non-profit legal persons and special legal persons.
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Legal persons generally have the following characteristics:
First, a legal person is not a person, but a social organization, an aggregate, and an aggregate of organizations endowed with legal personality by law.
Second, it has the capacity for civil rights and civil conduct. It can enjoy and exercise civil rights and set and undertake civil obligations in its own name and through its own actions. The legal person's capacity for civil rights and civil conduct arises when the legal person is established and disappears when the legal person is terminated.
Third, independently enjoy civil rights and assume civil obligations according to law. Have their own independent rights and interests, and can independently enjoy rights and assume obligations in their own names. Fourth, bear civil liability independently. Whether a legal person organization can bear civil liability independently is an important symbol that distinguishes it from other organizations.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Legal Person