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Delusion

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A belief that something exists which does not exist and which no rational person in the absence of evidence would believe to exist.

See 195 Pa. St. 291, 78 Am. St. Rep. 815, 45 Atl. 726.