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.
В 2000 г. Верховный суд Индии признал субъектом права священные книги сикхизма, а в 2012 г., совсем недавно, был заключён договор между новозеландскими аборигенами и Короной, по которому субъектом права признавалась река, владеющая собственным руслом.