Natural Person in German Civil Law

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Law, grade: 2,7, University of applied sciences, Cologne, course: Business Law, language: English, abstract: This assignment is about the natural person in German Civil Law and will first give an quick overview about the BGB and will then explain where the natural person is defined. The following chapter will then describe what and/or who is a legal person and which rights and obligations has a natural person. After that, different obligations and rights in different stages of ages will be explained and substantiate with examples and jurisdictions.

The natural person in antiquity, slaves were fundamentally without rights, they had no rights and were treated as one thing because of the legal system and were not considered in the legal sense as a person. The legal system must therefore make a decision on who owns rights and, in other words, who is to be considered a person. This regulation is made by the legal institution of legal capacity. Legal capacity is the ability to be the bearer of rights and obligations. Legal capacity has natural and legal persons. Many things in terms of natural persons have changed since the antiquity and the German Civil Law came into effect. Changes and actual regulations will be explained in this assignment.