They are what lawyers call legal fictions.

律师叫它们法人。

In " Leviathan" , published in 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote that secure property rights, which are needed for a system of economic exchange, are a legal fiction that emerged only with the modern state.

在1651年出版的《利维坦》一书中，托马斯·霍布斯写道，稳定的财产权是经济交换体系所必需的条件，这是一种法律上的构想，只在现代国家才会出现。