For example, corporations (think of the words corpse and corporal) are bodies created/recognised by law to have legal personality

And the thing is...

...that they really don't exist

Not in any tangible form

2.
But we shrug at the notion of a legal fiction like a limited company or a statutory corporation being a legal person, as if it a normal thing

But a living creature?

That is laughable, it seems

Imo, it is not a daft idea at all

3.
That an animal cannot exercise its own legal rights is no barrier to it having legal personality

Children and those with insufficient capacity are still persons at law, even though others have at on their behalf

4.
For a good part of English legal history we even had the weird notion that intangible legal fictions like corporations had personalities at law, and enslaved human beings did not

5.
Am not advocating conferring legal personality on other species to our own, but it is not a strange idea either

Worth considering, especially in the context of animal welfare

6.
As in the words of that eminent jurist Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction:

'personality goes a long way'

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ps2

Having legal personality means there are rights enforceable and recognised by law, even if those rights are enforced on a person's behalf

Directors on behalf of companies
Parents for children
Attorneys for incapacitated

So why not humans for (certain) protected animals?
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