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  • 1not fictitious — index actual, authentic, documentary, true (authentic) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Fictitious entry — Fictitious entries, also known as fake entries, Mountweazels, ghost word[1] and nihil articles, are deliberately incorrect entries or articles in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories. Entries in reference… …

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  • 3Fictitious capital — is a concept used by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy. It is introduced in the third volume of Capital. [cite book last = Marx first = Karl author link = Karl Marx title = Capital, volume III url =… …

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  • 4fictitious defendants — When a party suing (plaintiff) is not sure whether there are unknown persons involved in the suit, they are given fictitious names, usually designated Doe I, Doe II, and so forth, with an allegation in the complaint that if and when the true… …

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  • 5fictitious — fictitious, fabulous, legendary, mythical, apocryphal mean having the character of something invented or imagined as opposed to something true or genuine. Fictitious commonly implies fabrication and, therefore, more often suggests artificiality… …

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  • 6fictitious — [fik tish′əs] adj. [L ficticius < pp. of fingere, to form, devise: see DOUGH] 1. of or like fiction; imaginary 2. not real; pretended; false [fictitious joy] 3. assumed for disguise or deception [a fictitious name] fictitiously adv. SYN …

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  • 7Fictitious defendants — are real persons a plaintiff believes it has a cause of action against in a lawsuit who, for one reason or another, cannot be identified by the plaintiff before a lawsuit is commenced. As the statute of limitations for many torts such as medical… …

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  • 8Fictitious — Fic*ti tious, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. [1913 Webster] The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope. {Fic*ti tious*ly}, adv.… …

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  • 9fictitious precision — ficˌtitious preˈcision noun [uncountable] ACCOUNTING when a set of figures look correct because of their detail and their appearance but are in fact not correct: • Fictitious precision is just one of many ways in which managers can be misled by… …

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  • 10fictitious payee — n: 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 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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