Fictitious Name - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fictitious namecertificate of assumed name, trade name, or fictitious name
certificate of assumed name, trade name, or fictitious name A certificate granted by a state authority (usually the secretary of state) that allows you to transact business under a name other than your own ...
fictitious name
fictitious name : a name (as John Doe) used in a complaint when the party's name is unknown at the time of filing or when the party's identity is being kept private ...
Doe John
The fictitious lessee acting as plaintiff in the common law action of ejectment the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe Hence a fictitious name for a party real or fictitious to any action or proceeding...
fictitious payee
fictitious payee : a person named as payee in an instrument who does not in fact exist or who does exist but to whom the maker of the instrument does not intend to convey any interest in the instrument ...
Pseudonym
A fictitious name assumed for the time as by an author a pen name an alias...
fictitious person
fictitious person : a supposed but in fact nonexistent person referred to in some legal documents or proceedings ;also : fictitious payee ...
Fictitious entry
Fictitious entry, A fictitious entry is one which is not genuine. It is an unreal entry. Entries which are not genuine cannot confirm anybody's rights. It is too obvious to be stressed that an entry which is incorrectly introduced into the records by reason of ill-will or hostility is not only shorn of authenticity but also becomes utterly useless without any lawful basis, Bachan v. Kankar, AIR 1972 SC 2157 (2160): (1972) 2 SCC 555: (1973) 1 SCR 727....
Pseudonymity
The using of fictitious names as by authors...
Pseudonymous
Bearing a false or fictitious name as a pseudonymous work...
Forgery
Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34.The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...
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