fictitious person

noun

, Law.

1. a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.

Example Sentences

The doctrine of the fictitious person as payee may also exonerate a banker who has paid an order bill to a wrongful possessor.

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If the payee is a fictitious person the bill may be treated as payable to bearer .

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Father Mortimer is a fictitious person, this Sir John having in reality died unmarried.

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In some cases the name of a real and that of a fictitious person may have become confounded.

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It is difficult enough at best to invest a fictitious person with reality, and the writer can afford to neglect no device.

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