In Britain, same as in America, people are not persons. Persons are names on paperwork. Making the right statements about the fact that you remain a man, gives you power at Kings Bench Court
or if they can convince (sell) you that you are the name on their paperwork.
Ah Badecker you had me fooled all along thinking you were a purveyor of the finest theoretical knowledge merely disguised as polysemous wit until you go a spoil it with this legalese waffle that would only get a poor muggle into the jaws of contempt.