Terminology Database
Terms or Phrases
- packet
- packet switching
- parity bit
- perfect
- perfect record
- permanent preservation
- permanent preservation system
- persistent archive
- persistent format
- persistent object
- persistent object preservation
- persistent storage
- person
- pertinent
- physical form
- physical person
- physical structure
- plaintext
- planned disposition
- platform
- platform-independent
- platform-neutral
- policy
- potential record
- preamble
- precise
- presented digital record
- preservation
- preservation emulation
- preservation strategy
- preservation system
- preserved record
- preserver
- presumption of authenticity
- primary storage
- primitiveness
- priority of transmission
- private key
- probative
- probative record
- procedural context
- procedure
- process
- program record
- property sheets
- proprietary
- prospective record
- protocol
- protocol register
- provenance
- provenancial context
- pseudo-original
- public accountability
- public key
- public key cryptosystem
- public key encryption
- public key infrastructure
- publication
Term | person
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Dictionary Definitions
- n., 1. A natural person. 2. Includes a body corporate or politic. 3. An individual , partnership, unincorporated association, unincorporated organization, syndicate, trustee, executor, administrator or other legal personal representative. 4… 5… 6… 7… [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
- n., An entity, such as an individual, or, under law, an incorporated group with certain legal rights and responsibilities; a human being; the live body of a human being. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
- n., An individual or legally defined entity who is the subject of rights and duties, and who is recognized by the juridical system as capable of or having the potential for acting legally. See also: addressee; author; juridical person; originator; physical person; recipient; writer.
