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The legal form that one takes. One might be a [[natural person]], or a [[corporation]] of some kind - to flesh and blood, a shoddy fiction, but in the eyes of the law a very real, very worthwhile contrivance, deserving of the full protection of the constitution.
The legal form that one takes. One might be a [[natural person]], or a [[corporation]] of some kind - to flesh and blood, a shoddy fiction, but in the eyes of the law a very real, very worthwhile contrivance, deserving of the full protection of the constitution.


Corporations - companies, if you like - come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. [[LLC]]s, [[PLC]]s, [[société anonyme]]s, [[société d’investissement à capital variable]], segregated cell companies]] incorporated cell companies]], [[espievie]]s - shall I go on?
Corporations - companies, if you like - come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. [[LLC]]s, [[PLC]]s, [[société anonyme]]s, [[société d’investissement à capital variable]], [[segregated portfolio company|segregated portfolio companies]], [[incorporated cell company|incorporated cell companies]], and the many and splendoured varieties of [[espievie]], common and exotic, that you can find out there - shall I go on?


then there are in-betweeners like [[Partnership limited by shares|partnerships]], [[Trust|trusts]], [[fund|funds]] and segregated portfolios having some or none of the characteristics of legal personality.
then there are in-betweeners like [[Partnership limited by shares|partnerships]], [[Trust|trusts]], [[fund|funds]] and segregated portfolios having some or none of the characteristics of legal personality.