Legal form of an organization
ID legal_form
DatatypeNot PIIcategoricalDraft
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Legal form of a company or other organization written as a name or an abbreviation, in the language of the country of registration: SpA or EIRL in Chile, GmbH in Germany, Uždaroji akcinė bendrovė (UAB) in Lithuania, ΝΠΔΔ (public law entity) in Greece. Registers often keep it in a column next to the name. The ISO 20275 code of a legal form is elf_code.
- Parent datatype
- Category
category - Categories
- Companies/business/organizations, Legal and compliance
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 70/100 · missing: regexp, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...)
- Metacrafter rules
- 1 rule (1 by field name, 0 by value)
legalformbyfieldfield, common/orgs.yaml
- Supported by tools
- metacrafter
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| SpA | Chilean sociedad por acciones |
| EIRL | Chilean sole proprietorship with limited liability |
| Uždaroji akcinė bendrovė | Lithuanian private limited company |
| ΝΠΔΔ | Greek legal entity under public law |
| GmbH | |
| Mutual Fund | GLEIF, other legal form |
| K09K invalid | ISO 20275 code: elf_code |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Организационно-правовая форма | |
| German | Rechtsform | |
| Spanish | Forma jurídica |
Sources
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/legal_form - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/companies/legal_form.yamlon GitHub