Corporations -- were guilds defined as a corporation under civil law? What of any social body?
How is legal personhood defined? In terms of rights and powers that belong to the person. It seems then it is possible that there is no necessary connection between legal personhood and a Lockean right to property. Are the property rights of a private association different from that of a political community? Must a corporation have the same rights as its members?
Can property be defined apart from the rights? Does use (or consumption) always entail [transfer of] ownership? (Is the reception of a gift equivalent to taking ownership of it?)
Are there any problems with legal personhood that are intrinsic to the notion itself? Is it necessary that we conceive of a community as a substantial whole in order to consider it as a "person"? (I think the answer is no.)
What happens to legal justice when applied to relations between corporations? Does everything reduce to commutative justice? (Does commutative justice exist between communities?)
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