legal fiction

A court would look beyond the legal fiction to the reality of the situation.

Until your mind changes, the divorce is just a legal fiction.

But it will no longer be able to hide behind a legal fiction.

Legal fiction has never been regarded as a source of law.

There was discussion: the couple, divorce as a legal fiction.

Man's claim to ownership of it is a legal fiction.

Legal fiction should not be extended so as to lead unjust results.

This legal fiction has been of considerable value to the Church on more than one occasion.

The corporation was created as a legal fiction to reduce personal responsibility.

There's a term that describes a situation when a court makes something out of nothing: It's called legal fiction.

If the courts hesitate in striking down this legal fiction, then Congress must.

But that's exactly what this tissue of legal fictions is being permitted to do.

But many civil liberties experts argue that the laws are based on a legal fiction.

"It may be time for New York to get back to reality, rather than legal fiction," he said.

Sometimes the elements of "voluntary" and "known" are established by a legal fiction.

It creates a legal fiction that two separate contracts exist.

But the notion that a boy becomes a man only on a certain birthday is a mere legal fiction.

The concept of a legal person is a fundamental legal fiction.

One example of a legal fiction occurs in adoption.

The doctrine of survival is also an example of legal fiction.

It may have its root, philosophically, in the legal fiction that a corporation is a person.

Critics have attacked this situation as a legal fiction that is awkward and causes particular problems for service companies.

Such legal fictions bother a lawyer not at all.