RE: And here we have it....
August 11, 2011 at 6:32 pm
(August 11, 2011 at 6:16 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: So? Axes are not people. True. However, axe murders are nothing without people.
Doesn't change the fact that a corporation is a virtual construct, a distinct non-person.
I never said anything to the contrary. I was merely stating that people are a core part of any corporation.
Your analogy with axes doesn't really work, since you change the subject halfway through from axes to axe murders. If you leave the subject as an axe, then it is ridiculous to say that an axe is nothing without people, since it is still an axe.
A corporation on the other hand ceases to be a corporation if it doesn't have any people associated with it. The original Pets.com used to be a corporation, but it ceased being one when it failed and everyone left it. You can't have a corporation with no employees, just as you can't have an organisation with no members.
Some definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary (to back my points up).
"A number of
persons united, or regarded as united, in one body; a body of
persons."
"A body corporate legally authorized to act as a single individual; an artificial person created by royal charter, prescription, or act of the legislature, and having authority to preserve certain rights in perpetual succession. A corporation may be either aggregate, comprising many
individuals, as the mayor and burgesses of a town, etc., or sole, consisting of only one
person and his successors, as a king, bishop, or parson of a parish. According to their nature, corporations are termed civil, ecclesiastical (U.S. religious), eleemosynary, municipal, etc."
