Hobbes' Account Of Corporate Personhood: Persona Ficta Or Persona Repraesentata? Cover Image

Hobsovo viđenje pravnog lica: persona ficta ili persona repraesentata?
Hobbes' Account Of Corporate Personhood: Persona Ficta Or Persona Repraesentata?

Author(s): Marko Simendić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu & Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Thomas Hobbes; legal personality; corporate personhood; corporation; persona ficta; persona repraesentata

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with thomas Hobbes’s account of corporate personhood. In contrast to the dominant approaches in recent literature on Hobbes, particularly the works of david runciman and Monica Brito vieira, in this paper Hobbes’s account of legal personality is viewed as opposed to the medieval tradition of persona fictarather than as derived from it. the first part of the paper discusses some of the difficulties in the contemporary commentaries on Hobbes’s theory of corporate personhood. the second part of the paper summarises the development of this idea in Hobbes’s work, while the third segment of this article points at a number of elements of Hobbes’s theory that are specific to Hobbes and suggests that the concept of persona repraesentata could be an idea that is more descriptive of Hobbes’s position than persona ficta.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 59-77
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian