Legal personality recognised for artificial juridical persons and purposes, enabling rights and duties distinct from natural persons. An artificial juridical person is an entity not a natural person but recognised by law as a distinct subject bearing rights, entitlements, liabilities and duties. The law personifies a corpus-such as a corporation or an institutional purpose-so that juridical personality enables legally enforceable relationships. Where personality is conferred for a specific purpose, legal personality vests in that purpose rather than in the physical form, as illustrated by recognition of an idol's underlying worship purpose and by corporate or municipal bodies.