The single-member company, societas unius personae or “quasi societas”?

Abstract

Legal recognition of the single-member company is these days an unquestionable reality, although another thing is whether its denomination is the most appropriate, as the phrase “single-member company” encloses a terminological digression. In any event, its Latin version: societas unius personae could not have fitted in the Roman legal order as it would have lacked a precise legal-technical meaning. Therefore, the objective of the present study consists in establishing a proposal for its denomination, regardless of its doctrinal acceptation and actual use, for the disputed question of the unipersonality of the firm, from the Roman jurisprudential viewpoint.