Scope note:
This class comprises institutions or groups of people that have obtained a legal recognition as a group and can act collectively as agents.
This means that they can perform actions, own property, create or destroy things and can be held collectively responsible for their actions like individual people. The term 'personne morale' is often used for this in French.
Examples:
- Greenpeace
- Paveprime Ltd
- the National Museum of Denmark
In First Order Logic:
E40(x) ⊃ E74(x)