CHAPTER XVI. OF PERSONS, AUTHORS, AND THINGS PERSONATED

A Person What

A PERSON, is he "whose words or actions are considered, either as his own, or as representing the words or actions of an other man, or of any other thing to whom they are attributed, whether Truly or by Fiction."
Anna's definition is distorted by attempting to read multiple statutes dealing with the topic. Hobbes on the other hand predates her by 400 years and I believe his definition is preferred.