ABSTRACT
The simplest type of organization is that of individual proprietorship, where exclusive rights of control vest in natural persons. On this pattern, the owner of an object is entitled, to the exclusion of other private persons, to decide what shall be done with it, except as he is limited by law, or by voluntary agreement (e.g. by the terms of a lease granted to someone else).*
The legal notion of a 'corporate person' involves a more complicated type of organization. Property rights, analogous to those possessed by individuals, are said to vest in corporations. Since corporations are themselves normative systems, the rights of control legally attributed to them as a whole (concentrated as it were, in the legal person as uniquely and exclusively as if it were a natural person) will in practice be exercised by men designated by the rules of the corporation, and may accordingly be divided and subject to conditions. Questions of responsibility then * This does not exclude the possibility that the law may authorize other persons, as State agents, to exercise particular rights of control (e.g. by making a demolition order).
