# Legal identity

`kaal:entity:legal-identity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `legal-identity`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2025 to 2026.

**2025**

- [5886342-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-012) [definitional/asserted] -- Legal Identity is the narrower category: it is an Identity to which rights and obligations are attributed on the basis of the applicable law, in particular natural and legal persons, so having an identity in a digital system does not by itself confer legal personality.
  > A Legal Identity is an Identity to which rights and obligations are attributed based on the Applicable Law, in particular Natural and Legal persons.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

**2026**

- [7596939-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7596939-013) [design/stated] -- The Article resolves agent identity by legal stipulation rather than metaphysics: the legal subject is the registered record, continued by a recorded learning update within a prescribed granularity or by a recorded continuity transition, and only while the signing key stays within the registered configuration.
  > Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

## Verify

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