Artikulenko O. Legal Personality of a Legal Entity

The author of the dissertation has substantiated that the purpose of the category of legal personality of a legal entity as a general precondition for the participation in civil legal relations is that such legal personality in its role in the mechanism of legal regulation acts as a mean of recording the possibility of a legal entity’s participation in civil legal relations – recognition of the ability to be the bearer of subjective rights and responsibilities, defines its general legal status established by the norms of law. The author has stated that provisions about the presence of legal personality within a legal entity allows for the availability of passive capacity, dispositive legal capacity (including the ability to execute civil transactions and passive dispositive capacity) and other elements of legal personality that such a subject receives as a result of granting it with the rights and responsibilities in accordance with the norms of civil law. The combination of all these components means that a legal entity that owns them, is the subject of civil law.