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The term person is used informally to mean human. But in the fields of law, philosophy, medicine, and others, it means the presence of certain characteristics that grant a certain legal, ethical, or moral standing.
For example, in many jurisdictions, the law allows a group of human beings to act together as a single composite entity called a corporation, and the corporation is considered a legal person with standing to sue or be sued in court. In philosophy and medicine, person may mean only humans who are capable of certain kinds of thought, and thus exclude embryos, early fetuses, or adult humans with certain types of brain damage.[1][2]
An old person expressing anger about race is entirely different from a young person raging about the government.
Glenn Reynolds thinks the MSM is over-reporting the supposed rage of McCain crowds:So we've had nearly 8 years of lefty assassination fantasies about George W...
Egypt kills pigs to stop a virus that moves person-to-person
Egypt began culling its roughly 300,000 pigs on Wednesday and, Reuters reported,
'The move is not expected to block the H1N1 virus from striking, as the illness is spread by people and not present in Egyptian swine...
"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process."
<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2008/11/28/bush-contemplates-how-hed-like-to-be-remembered/">Bush speaks...
Officer cannot patdown a person as a matter of course before putting that person in a police car
An officer cannot patdown a person as a matter of course before putting that person in a police car without reasonable suspicion...
Consumer Law: Complete Idiot?s Guide to Person-Person Lending
I was reading a useful ?Travel Troubleshooter? column in the print 9/6/09 Oregonian Travel section, written by Christopher Elliot, ombudsman for the National Geographic Traveler magazine) and saw a reference to this book:Complete Idiot?s Guide to Person-Person Lending (and a blogger book review of it: Complete Idiot?s Guide to Person-Person Lending)Both the blog and the book had some very useful tips and background information...
First Person Civilly Committed as Sexually Dangerous Person Under AWA
Thanks to a helpful reader, I see that a Maine sex offender became the first person in the nation to be civilly committed as a sexually dangerous person under the new Adam Walsh Act...
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Can collection agency call me for my mother debt that she never had?
Get an Attorney - quickly. Do not talk to the collection people. Do not tell the...
Will my Criminal Record prevent me from naturalizing or getting a Green Card?
A Lawful Permanent Resident can apply for United States citizenship after 5 year...
How can I prove my wife only married me to get a green card?
The problem with an annulment is that they are hard to get-- they are not someth...
Do federal or state child support laws supercede?
I'm not a lawyer but I was a paralegal... the way I understand it, federal ...
Haw can I join with my family who live in the USA?
Only you are allowed to can join your sister....
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