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Fictio Cedit Veritati

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

FICTIO JUris non est, ubi Veritas, Fiction yields to truth. Where truth is, fiction of law does not exist.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Fictio juris non est, ubi veritas. Fiction yields to truth. There is no fiction of law where there is truth.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Fictio juris non est ubi veritas. Fiction yields to truth. Where there is truth, fiction of law exists not.