Usage of "legal fiction"

Russian

юридическая фикция

Portuguese

ficção jurídica

Spanish

ficcion juridica

Catalan

ficció legal

Fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule.

fiction

юридическая фикция

Usage of legal fiction in English

Joyce's Stephen Daedalus ponders the idea that paternity is a legal fiction. 
 The Irish Times 

Christina was a wonderful legal fiction, as N.V. calls it. 
 Vandemark's Folly 

To this legal fiction the untutored American must conform. 
 Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness 

How do you keep the writing of legal fiction separate from the actual practice of law? 
 Reuters 

You are less even than a legal fiction.' 
 Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and... 

The Justice Department argues those sessions were a legal fiction that the appeals court should peel away. 
 Reuters 

It was a legal fiction, of course. 
 Frances Waldeaux: A Novel 

They would have it that they are powerless to prevent being ravished, but that is a legal fiction. 
 For Love Of Evil 

But every legal fiction is outward homage to the principle of law, an outward protest against unlawful violence. 
 William the Conqueror 

Is it, then, merely a legal fiction, and not a religious truth, that husband and wife are one? 
 Heart: A Social Novel 

He went on, The State does not exist as a person or thing exists, but is a legal fiction. 
 The illuminatus! trilogy 

But Clio could at least refrain from reading the works which, by a legal fiction, she was supposed to inspire. 
 Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story 

He insisted on a bonus being paid, regardless, which his lawyers had some trouble finding a legal fiction to fit. 
 The Pirates of Ersatz 

It was not in such hearts, it was not in any heart that the revolting legal fiction of imputed righteousness arose. 
 The Hope of the Gospel 

That the king can do no wrong was never anything but a legal fiction; and it is a legal fiction still. 
 What's Wrong with the World 

We talked of the ills which threaten democracy and which are derived from the legal fiction at the root of it. 
 Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel 