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.
Nel 2000, la Corte Suprema Indiana decretò persone giuridiche i libri sacri della religione Sikh. E nel 2012, di recente quindi, c'è stato un accordo tra gli aborigeni della Nuova Zelanda e la corona, per cui i fiumi furono riconosciuti persone giuridiche, proprietarie del proprio letto.