In 2000, the Indian Supreme Court held that the holy books of the Sikh religion was a legal person, and in 2012, just recently, there was a treaty between the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the crown, in which it was agreed that a river was a legal person who owned its own riverbed.
Em 2000, o Supremo Tribunal Indiano decretou que os livros sagrados da religião Sikh eram pessoas jurídicas e, em 2012, há pouco tempo, celebrou-se um tratado entre os indígenas da Nova Zelândia e a Coroa, onde se acordava que um rio era uma pessoa jurídica, que tinha um leito próprio.