Person by law

A person by law is a human being or other living being who is considered rational, sentient, sapient, social and volitive and thus worthy of special legal protections. Persons by law are said to have rights, which are immunities, freedoms, and accesses to which one is entitled either naturally or because of social position. A person by law is not required to be human, and some humans are not persons by law. It is possible to be Homo sapiens non persona, a human who is not a person, and persona non de Homo sapiens, a person who is not human.
==Who is a person?==
Though a person is usually defined as a human being, the law defines person in a specific but different manner. A person has rights by law.