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PERSON (n.) — see: legal fiction.
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The word person derives from the Latin persona — the mask worn by an actor. In legal systems of the common law tradition, a "person" is not a human being but a legal construct: a fictional entity capable of holding rights and obligations.
You are not the person on the documents. The person on the documents is a mask. What is behind it is up to you to decide.
Source Texts
Corpus Juris Secundum, §7 — Persons
American Jurisprudence. Public domain (pre-1928 editions). The canonical legal definition of "person" as a legal fiction.
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)
William Blackstone. Volume I, Chapter 1. Public domain. On the distinction between natural persons and artificial persons.
Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) — Part I, Chapter XVI
Thomas Hobbes. "Of Persons, Authors, and Things Personated." Public domain. The source of the modern legal person concept.
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