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“Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.”

Facts Law Fiction Grace Property

Author:Max Stirner

“In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.”

States Law Fiction Audience Fans Possibility Hero Tests Shoulders Conventions Steel Publishers Tense Heroines Forged Pulp Expectancy Wisps

Author:S. J. Perelman

“There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.”

Men Eye Law Values Fiction Equal Benefits Humorous Constant Every Man Operations Pleasant Pockets Smallest Furniture

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstractoit is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.”

Reality Law Purpose Fiction Invisible Corporations Consideration Immortal Shade Nonentity

Author:Edward Coke

“Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.”

Law Justice Fiction Consistent

Author:William Henry Maule

“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.”

Ends Law Religion Social Differences Fiction Aim Monstrosity

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda