Legal fictions in private law / Liron Shmilovits, University of Cambridge.
"General Introduction A legal fiction, for present purposes, is a false assumption a court knowingly relies on. The maxim that 'Everybody knows the law' is an example of a legal fiction. As a statement of fact, the maxim is evidently false. Not even lawyers or judges know all the law....
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