legal fiction in English

noun
1
an assertion accepted as true, though probably fictitious, to achieve a particular goal in a legal matter.
This ability is, in reality, a legal fiction , a useful lie the court tells itself.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "legal fiction" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "legal fiction", or refer to the context using the word "legal fiction" in the English Dictionary.

1. It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.

2. Interpretative Bigamy is the state of a man who has not as a matter of fact had two legal wives in succession, but whose matrimonial ventures--whether one or two--are accompanied with such circumstances as to warrant the law by a legal fiction to hold him as a bigamist and irregular.

3. Attica Locke is the author of the Highway 59 novels, which include 2018 Edgar Award winner Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; and The Cutting Season