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Fictitious Plaintiff

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A person appearing in the writ or record as the plaintiff in «a suit, but who in reality does net exist, or who is ignorant of the suit and of the use of his name in it, It is a contempt of court to sue in the name of a fictitious party.

See 4 Bl. Comm. 134.