Legal status
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Legal status describes the legal rights, duties and obligations of a person or entity, or a subset of those rights and obligations.[1][2] The term may be used to describe a person's legal condition with respect to personal rights, but excluding proprietary relations, such as their having the status of a spouse. It may also refer to legal capacity apart from other elements of personal status, such as the status of a minor,[1][3] or the set of privileges, obligations, powers or restrictions that a person or entity receives through legislation.[4]
The term may also refer to a person's legal condition as imposed by law but without consent, such as the status of an indentured servant when indentured servitude is enforced by law.[1]
Legal status may be something that arises solely by operation of law, such as being a Social Security recipient, describing the individual's relationship to the law.[3]
Footnotes
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- ^ See, e.g., Recognition of unmarried cohabitation as a legal status worthy of protection, 1 N.C. Family Law Practice § 1:5
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