legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts, which is then used in order to help reach a decision or to apply a legal rule. A legal fiction typically...

laws, particularly the open legal questions around fan fiction and other fan works. OTW also maintains its own fan fiction archive, the Archive of Our...

Examples of legal doctrines include: Constitutionalism Constitutional economics Concept Rule according to higher law Legal fiction Legal precedent Ex...

natural person. The concept of a juridical person is a fundamental legal fiction. It is pertinent to the philosophy of law, as it is essential to laws...

several subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, and legal thrillers. Most crime drama focuses...

the jurisdiction and on legal questions such as whether or not it qualifies as "fair use" (see Legal issues with fan fiction). Attitudes of authors and...

hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The...

literary magazine Design Fiction, critical design, which takes a critical theory based approach to design Legal fiction, a legal term This disambiguation...

orators could never present themselves as legal professionals or experts. They had to uphold the legal fiction that they were merely an ordinary citizen...

law present in television show or film. Legal drama is distinct from police crime drama or detective fiction, which typically focus on police officers...

physical, tangible human being, and the other is the legal person, often referred to as a legal fiction. When a baby is born in the U.S., a birth certificate...

in some countries, the spousal privileges have their roots in the legal fiction that a husband and wife were one person. In the United States, federal...

limit the areas where casinos could be constructed; it was a type of legal fiction as the riverboats were seldom, if ever, taken away from the dock. Paddlewheel...

threshold of legal adulthood as recognized or declared in law. It is the moment when a person ceases to be considered a minor and assumes legal control over...

his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and...

reflecting the legal fiction that their domains within the empire were still under the ultimate overlordship of the Emperor. Legally, the Hohenzollerns...

orators could never present themselves as legal professionals or experts. They had to uphold the legal fiction that they were merely an ordinary citizen...

to maintain the polite fiction. Diplomatic illness The Emperor's New Clothes Interpersonal communication Kayfabe Legal fiction Minimisation (psychology)...

Constructive notice is the legal fiction that signifies that a person or entity should have known, as a reasonable person would have, of a legal action taken or...

Sometimes the elements of "voluntary" and "known" are established by a legal fiction. In this case, one is presumed to know one's rights and that those rights...

Precocious puberty, a developmental disorder Precocious toddler, a legal fiction which assumes that a living person is fertile at birth Precociality...

(The 2nd Baron Stamp may claim a shorter tenure, but merely through a legal fiction.) Suffolk died without issue and his title became extinct. They died...

not need to be of material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption...

skilled in the art, a skilled addressee or simply a skilled person is a legal fiction found in many patent laws throughout the world. This hypothetical person...

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Often within...

However, by this time the suzerainty of the Sublime Porte had become a legal fiction. Romania had its own flag and anthem; after 1867, it had its own currency...

The legal team working on behalf of Organization for Transformative Works has stated that the publication of fan fiction on AO3 is entirely legal so long...

subgenres, including detective fiction (such as the whodunit), courtroom drama, hard-boiled fiction, mystery fiction, and legal thrillers. Suspense and mystery...

Langum Sr. Prizes are American literary awards for historical fiction, biography, and legal history. They have been awarded annually since 2001 by the Langum...

inserted in calendars between the "normal" fifth and sixth days. By legal fiction, the Romans treated both the first "sixth day" and the additional "sixth...