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alias definition - legal

n

  1. An assumed or additional name used by a person, frequently to conceal her true identity, or such a name applied to a person by others. See also known as.
  2. An alias writ.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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