person

person n. 1) a human being. 2) a corporation treated as having the rights and obligations of a person. Counties and cities can be treated as a person in the same manner as a corporation. However, corporations, counties and cities cannot have the emotions of humans such as malice, and therefore are not liable for punitive damages.these people in Guantanamo are and can be defined by legal definition as "persons" as but the catholic church can or any other church denomination can be classified as a person ; thus the ability to seek out financial recourse defined by laws of man against said "persons" or criminal prosecution that leads a Enron executive to jail for the deeds of the corporation ; ?Main Entry:per·son Pronunciation: \ˈpər-sən\ Function: nounEtymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French persone, from Latin persona actor's mask, character in a play, person, probably from Etruscan phersu mask, from Greek prosōpa, plural of prosōpon face, mask — more at prosopopoeiaDate: 13th century1: human, individual —sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes 2: a character or part in or as if in a play : guise3 a: one of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians b: the unitary personality of Christ that unites the divine and human natures 4 aarchaic : bodily appearance b: the body of a human being; also : the body and clothing 5: the personality of a human being : self 6: one (as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties 7: reference of a segment of discourse to the speaker, to one spoken to, or to one spoken of as indicated by means of certain pronouns or in many languages by verb inflection— per·son·hood \-ˌhu̇d\ noun — in person: in one's bodily presence Black's Law Dictionary (7th Ed.) (1999) defines "person" as:1. A human being. 2. An entity (such as a corporation) that is recognized by law as having the rights and duties of a human being.