# Entity

**IRI:** https://folio.openlegalstandard.org/R7oBWHStfmqTLn2MypkW3Pj

## Labels

**Preferred Label:** Organization

**Alternative Labels:**

- Entity
- ENTITY

**Translations:**

- de-de: Entität
- fr-fr: Entité
- ja-jp: エンティティ
- pt-br: Entidade
- zh-cn: 实体

**Hidden Label:** ENTITY

## Definition

A legal entity is a legal construct through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if they were a single person for certain purposes. The most common purposes are lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts. Some examples of legal entities include companies, cooperatives (co-ops), corporations, municipalities, political parties, sovereigns, states, temples, trade unions, and ships or vessels.

## Sub Class Of

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## Parent Class Of

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## See Also

- https://folio.openlegalstandard.org/R8AC0Iq3zua7VGgBd0jCBtz

**Deprecated:** False

**Identifier:** ENTITY