Task: Class Definition Understanding (ontology: Legal/ELI)

Which of the following definitions best describes 'Agent'?

A. The physical embodiment of a legal expression, either on paper or in any electronic the concept.
For example, any electronic or physical the concept of the legal expression (XML, TIFF, PDF, etc.) ; e.g. PDF version of act 3 of 2005.  (adapted from Akoma Ntoso).
Note that the notion of the concept in ELI is more precise than a FRBR Manifestation in the sense that a the concept in ELI can carry a legal value (see the property eli:legal value).
B. Individual people or groups of people, like an institution with a legal recognition, who have the potential to perform intentional actions for which they can be held responsible.
C. Institutions or groups of people that have obtained a legal recognition as a group and can act collectively as agents.
D. Works that have other works as members. The members of a the concept may constitute alternatives to or derivatives of other members of the same the concept. Typically the members of the the concept represent the successive temporal versions of an act, while the the concept represents the act independantly of one of its version.

Answer: Individual people or groups of people, like an institution with a legal recognition, who have the potential to perform intentional actions for which they can be held responsible.