Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fictio

In old roman law a term of pleading which signified a false Averment or fiction .

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Concept of “Fictio”

Traditional meaning of fictio in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A fiction. Fictio cedit veritati: a fiction yields to truth. Fictio juris: a fiction of law. Fictio legis inique operatur alieni damnum vel injuriam: a legal fiction should not work to any person wrong or injury.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Fictio”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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