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.
Godine 2000., indijski Vrhovni sud smatrao je svete knjige Sikha osobama, a 2012., nedavno, postignut je sporazum između urođeničkih naroda Novog Zelanda i krune, u kojem je dogovoreno da je rijeka, legalno gledano, osoba koja posjeduje vlastito korito.