Fiction of law. A legal assumption that a thing is true which is either not true or which is as probably false as true; an assumption or supposition of law that something which is or may be false is true, or that a state of facts exists which has never really taken place; the [...]

I have been saying this from Job 5 of Bear’s Prayers:

12 Jahuwah aborts the schemes of conniving crooks, so that none of their plots come to term. 13 He catches the know-it–alls in their conspiracies– all that intricate intrigue swept out with the trash! 14 Suddenly they’re disoriented, plunged into darkness; they can’t see to [...]