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legal fiction

fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule
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legal fiction

Summary

legal fiction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (209 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • legal fiction's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85048071[2].
  • legal fiction's subclass of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • legal fiction's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01m4r0[4].
  • legal fiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Legal fictions[5].
  • legal fiction's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[6].
  • legal fiction's described by source is recorded as English-Chinese Dictionary of Anglo-American Law[7].
  • legal fiction's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • legal fiction's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[9].
  • legal fiction's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/legal-fiction[10].
  • legal fiction's Quora topic ID is recorded as Legal-Fiction[11].
  • legal fiction's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as legal-fictions[12].
  • legal fiction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777992059[13].
  • legal fiction's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2777992059[14].

Why It Matters

legal fiction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (209 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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