What divides French private law between subjects and objects of rights?
The summa divisio between persons and things.
What is a legal person in French private law?
A group with legal personality holding distinct rights and obligations.
What did the law of 16 February 2015 recognize about animals?
Animals as living beings endowed with sensitivity.
What legal change did Caledonian law no. 2024-4 introduce regarding animals?
It removed animals from the physical category of movables and created Article 515-15.
What is legal personality in law?
The status granting a human being rights and obligations.
What does Article 16-1 of the Civil Code prohibit regarding the human body?
It prohibits patrimonial rights over the human body, its elements, and products.
What is property in legal terms?
A thing capable of appropriation or a subjective right relating to a thing.
What powers does ownership confer on its holder?
Usus, fructus, and abusus.
What does patrimony include in a person's legal rights?
All rights and obligations including movable and immovable property.
Which rights can be transferred, seized, and prescribed?
Patrimonial rights.
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1. What is the central distinction in the summa divisio of French private law?
2. What distinguishes a legal person from the property it uses?
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