Law defines person to include individuals and corporate entities
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- 26 U.S. Code Section 7701 - Definitions whole source
Tax-code definition of person including an individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, or corporation.
- Artificial person whole source
Legal reference explaining an artificial person as a non-human legal entity recognized by law.
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- preceded IRS rejects the all-caps strawman name theory 2005 Pseudolaw misreads statutory person definitions and name formatting into a separate-entity theory.
- preceded FBI describes redemption theory as sovereign-citizen fraud 2011 Tax-agency rejection preceded later law-enforcement summaries of redemption theory.
- preceded Meads v Meads names organized pseudolegal commercial arguments 2012 Meads gave courts a broader OPCA framework for the same kind of commercial-pseudolaw package.
- preceded Courts reject admiralty-law and gold-fringe jurisdiction claims 2024 Later cases continue the same rejection of sovereign-citizen jurisdiction theories.
- preceded Judicial benchbooks classify birth-certificate and admiralty claims as pseudolaw 2026 Repeated litigation made the pseudolaw pattern a judicial-training topic.
- preceded TreasuryDirect warns that birth certificate bonds are fictitious 2026 Court training and Treasury fraud warnings describe the same birth-certificate-bond package.
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