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the difference between what you are and what the law admits you are.
means the formal position a person, entity, or relationship holds under the law, determining rights, duties, and what you can enforce or be forced into.
from rooted in latin status, meaning standing or condition; law borrowed it to mean your officially recognized position in a legal system, distinct from your social or actual condition.
corporations have ita company can be a legal person, you can't sue a nickname
statelessness existsmillions have no legal status anywhere, invisible to every system
can lag realitymarriages, kids, deaths sometimes exist before law catches up