Legal fiction法律假设、法律拟制 a presumption of fact assumed by a court for convenience, consistency or to achieve justice. There is an old adage: Fictions arise from the law, and not law from fictions.“【注】 所谓法律拟制(legal fiction),是依照实际需要,把某种事实看作另一种事实,使其与另一种事实发生同一的法律效果。 拟“、制“合在一起,有决断性虚构之意,但在法律上是一种不容反驳的推定或者假定。例如,It is a legal fiction that a corporation is a person.(把团体法人当作一个人是一种法律上的假设。)