(October 9, 2016 at 3:24 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Personhood may be a legal term, that's not all it is, though. Personhood may also be used outside of its legal connotation to be discussed as an idea, whether casually or philosophically.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the nature of the English language. Few words avoid multiple usage. No one is forbidden any other usage just because it fails to apply as a legal term.