natural personn.

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 78 b In Law..Antecessor is applyed to a natural person..but Prædecessor is applyed to a body Politique or Corporate.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xvi. 80 When they are considered as his owne, then is he called a Naturall Person: And when they are considered as representing the words and actions of an other, then is he a Feigned or Artificiall person.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 123 Natural persons are such as the God of nature formed us; artificial are such as are created and devised by human laws for the purposes of society and government; which are called corporations or bodies politic.

1765 J. Otis Vindic. Brit. Colonies 9 The rights of these are by the Letter-writer strangely confounded with the political & civil rights of natural persons.

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 440 In all feoffments and grants to natural persons..no other word but the word heirs..will create an estate in fee-simple.

a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr. (1879) I. xii. 358 Physical or natural persons... In this instance ‘physical’ or ‘natural’..denotes a person not fictitious or legal.

1882 National Bank Act (U.S.) 8 Associations for carrying on the business of banking..may be formed by any number of natural persons.

1980 Oxf. Compan. Law 871/1 Not every living human being is in all legal systems a natural person.

1991 Statute Law Rev. Autumn 164 Professor Martineau suggests that, for simplicity and to avoid sexism, ‘it’ may be used when the antecedent noun can refer to either a legal or natural person but not where it can only refer to a natural person.