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Fictio Legis Neminem Laedit

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

A FICTIONt The legal assumption that something Which is or may be false is true. ' It differs from a presumption in that a fiction is an assumption as true of something admittedly false; while a presumption is an attempt to arrive at the truth by inference.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A legal fiction injures no one. See 17 Johns. (N. Y.) 348.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A fiction of law injures no one. 2 Rolle, 502 ; 3 Bl. Comm. 43; Low v. Little, 17 Johns. (N. Y.) 348.