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Summary Of: Legal fiction

Another way of understanding a legal fiction is to say that it is a technique somebody uses in order to benefit from... Legal fiction has been used to declare that... a simple legal fiction extended the jurisdiction of the Court of the... A similar albeit more complicated legal fiction involved pleadings in the... Another legal fiction involves resignation from... A rather significant legal fiction that is still in use today is... the legal fiction that there were no property rights in land in... a legal fiction is applied maintaining that the husband... and so the legal fiction is overturned and the mother... Legal fiction has never been regarded as a source of law... A legal fiction should not be employed to defeat law or result in illegality... it has been always stressed that a legal fiction should not be employed where it would result in the violation of any legal rule... if it appears that a legal fiction is being used to circumvent an existing rule... Legal fiction should operate for the purpose for which it was created and should not be extended... Legal fiction should not be extended so as to lead unjust results...

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