"It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto…"

"Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men."

"If this statement by Judge Cooley is true, and the authority for it is unimpeachable, then the theory that the Consti…"

"The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authori…"

"Paternity may be a legal fiction. Who is the father of any son that any son should love him or he any son?"

"It is unconscionable in a defendant, to take advantage of the apices litigandi, to turn a plaintiff round, and make h…"

"A fiction of law shall never be contradicted so as to defeat the end for which it was invented, but for every other p…"

"Fictions of law must be consistent with justice."

"Fictions are allowed against all the King's subjects for the furtherance, but never for the hindrance, of justice."

"When Courts adopt a fiction they must necessarily support it."