For literary uses see Fiction An illustration from Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland, depicting the fictional protagonist, Alice, playing a fantastical game of croquet. ...
For Legal uses see legal fiction In the common law tradition, legal fictions are suppositions of fact taken to be true by the courts of law, but which are not necessarily true. ...
John Doe - commonly named as a fictitious defendant.
Fictitious 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. ... FEIGNED ACTION, practice. ... Ejectment is in the common law the name given to the civil action to recover the possession of and title to land. ... The name John Doe is typically used in the United States as a placeholder name for a male party in a legal action or legal discussion whose true identity is unknown. ...
A Fictitious Name is required by law to be filed in the appropriate jurisdiction when you are operating a business under an assumed name.
Fictitious names for the jurisdictions of Prince William County, Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park are registered by the Clerk of Circuit Court, Public Service Division.
A corporation may file a fictitious name at the local level if it is conducting business under a different name than that which is registered with the State Corporation Commission in Richmond, Virginia.
The purpose of filing a fictitious business name statement is to make available to the public and creditors the identities of people doing business for profit in the State of California.
The fictitious business name statement is valid for five years from the date of filing unless it is abandoned or there is a change in the facts (except a change in a registrant's residence address does not cause the statement to expire if that is the only change).
The fictitious business name statement shall be filed with the Clerk of the County in which the registrant has his principal place of business in this state, or if he has no place of business in the state, with the Clerk of Sacramento County.