legal fiction

legal fiction definition - legal

n

The assumption by the law that a particular assertion is true (even though it may not be) in order to support the functioning of a legal rule.

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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