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Board of Inland Revenue v Haddock (also known as the negotiable cow) is a fictitious legal case written by the humorist A. P. Herbert for Punch magazine as part of his series of Misleading Cases in the Common Law. It was first published in book form in More Misleading Cases in the Common Law (Methuen, 1930). [1] The case evolved into an urban ...
Child adoption is a legal fiction in that the adoptive parents become the legal parents, notwithstanding the lack of a biological relationship. [5] Once an order or judgment of adoption is entered, the biological parents become legal strangers to the child, legally no longer related nor with any rights related to the child.
At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...
The Law Offices of Harry Rex Vonner in John Grisham's short story "Fish Files" Haskins, Haskins & Purbright, law firm in Jeffrey Archer's short story "Where There's a Will" The Law Offices of Jacob McKinley Stafford, LLC, in John Grisham's short story "Fish Files" The Law Offices of John L. McAvoy in The Associate by John Grisham
A juridical person is a legal person that is not a natural person but an organization recognized by law as a fictitious person such as a corporation, government agency, non-governmental organisation, or international organization (such as the European Union).
The expression "law reform" is used in a number of senses and some of these are close to being wholly incompatible with each other. [1]In the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, Ireland, the expression "reform" includes, in relation to the law or a branch of the law, its development, its codification (including in particular its simplification and modernisation), statute law revision and ...
After each person's strawman is created through their birth certificate, a loan is taken out in the name of the strawman. The proceeds are then deposited into the secret government account associated with the fictitious person’s name. [13] Proponents of the theory believe the evidence is found on the birth certificate itself.
A fictitious defendant is a person that cannot be identified by the plaintiff before a lawsuit is commenced. Commonly this person is identified as " John Doe " or "Jane Doe".