Sid DeLong on Legal Fictions
A Guest Post
Telling a Pickaxe From a Case-Knife or How to Recognize a Legal Fiction When You See One.
Sidney W. DeLong
When Mr. Bumble (below) in Oliver Twist was told that he was legally responsible for the debts of his wife because “the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction,” he replies, “If the law supposes that the law is a ass, a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law …
