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Meanings of legal fiction in inglês

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

        ficção jurídica
        Usage of legal fiction in inglês
        1
        Joyce's Stephen Daedalus ponders the idea that paternity is a legal fiction.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Christina was a wonderful legal fiction, as N.V. calls it.
        Vandemark's Folly
        3
        To this legal fiction the untutored American must conform.
        Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
        4
        How do you keep the writing of legal fiction separate from the actual practice of law?
        Reuters
        5
        You are less even than a legal fiction.'
        Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and...
        6
        The Justice Department argues those sessions were a legal fiction that the appeals court should peel away.
        Reuters
        7
        It was a legal fiction, of course.
        Frances Waldeaux: A Novel
        8
        They would have it that they are powerless to prevent being ravished, but that is a legal fiction.
        For Love Of Evil
        9
        But every legal fiction is outward homage to the principle of law, an outward protest against unlawful violence.
        William the Conqueror
        10
        Is it, then, merely a legal fiction, and not a religious truth, that husband and wife are one?
        Heart: A Social Novel
        11
        He went on, The State does not exist as a person or thing exists, but is a legal fiction.
        The illuminatus! trilogy
        12
        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
        13
        He insisted on a bonus being paid, regardless, which his lawyers had some trouble finding a legal fiction to fit.
        The Pirates of Ersatz
        14
        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
        15
        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
        16
        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
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        Translations for legal fiction
        Legal fiction through the time
        Legal fiction across language varieties
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