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legal fictions

legal fictions is the plural of legal fiction.

Meaning of legal fiction

Noun

legal fiction (plural legal fictions)

  1. An assumption, not necessarily true, made by a court in order to apply a legal rule.

Questions about legal fictions

What is legal fictions the plural of?
Legal fictions is the plural of legal fiction.

Words near legal fictions in the dictionary

  1. legal effects
  2. legal effects and consequences
  3. legal entities
  4. legal entity
  5. legal fiction
  6. legal fictions
  7. legal force
  8. legal forces
  9. legal gap
  10. legal gaps
  11. legal gender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legal fictions (page history and authors); legal fiction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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