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.