The article suggests a system of legal personality forms contained in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which generally characterizes the legal status of a corporate legal entity (corporation). The author proceeds from the understanding of the legal entity as an association of persons who actually exist in the social and economic life of society, and not a legal fiction. For the first time in the literature, along with the corporation's bodies in the legal entity, its employees and labor collective are designated, whose efforts both exercise rights and fulfill duties. Differences in the legal regulation of internal relations in corporate and unitary organizations are established.

   The following elements of the legal status of a corporate legal entity are distinguished:

   rightfulness, which makes it possible to acquire civil rights and impose on the corporation civil obligations related to the activities defined in the statute;

   the powers of the bodies of the corporation, which together constitute competence;

   rights and obligations of the participants of the corporation, which are subdivided into management (item 4 and item 4 of article 65.2 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation) and property, civil law;

   the rights of members of the supervisory and other council of the corporation.

   Separately, the authority to speak on behalf of a legal entity as a special subjective right.

   This way of protecting civil rights is disputed as the restoration of corporate control.