The Persona Ficta: From Medieval Origins to Projections in Western Legal Tradition
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- doi:10.53794/ro.v9i1.764
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- Helga María Lell
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- 2026
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
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This essay focuses on the concept of the persona ficta as a construct that emerged in the Middle Ages, although with antecedents in Roman law, and which allowed legal personality to be attributed to collective entities such as the Church, universities, and municipalities. It is, thus, the antecedent of today’s legal entities. It takes a historical journey from Antiquity, continues with its consolidation in medieval canon law, and projects itself into the Modern Age with the absolutist State as a new subject of law. It then mentions the debates in the context of the codification processes in the 18th and 19th centuries. In contemporary times, this concept has been extended to corporations and international organizations, and more recently, it has been key to the question of the analogy applicable to non‑human entities such as rivers, ecosystems, animals, and even artificial intelligence.
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Helga María Lell. The Persona Ficta: From Medieval Origins to Projections in Western Legal Tradition. 2026. https://doi.org/10.53794/ro.v9i1.764
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
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