fictitious name

fictitious name
Any name which a person adopts or assumes either for business purposes or in his social relations, other than the name of his parents. 38 Am J1st Name § 11. A name artificially contrived or adopted. General American Oil Co. v Wagoner Oil & Gas Co. 118 Okla 183, 247 P 99. A purely artificial name or a name that is or may be applied to a natural person. Pease v Pease, 35 Conn 131. A name other than the true name of a corporation, used by the corporation in transacting business or conducting its affairs. 18 Am J2d Corp § 143. A feigned or pretended name employed by one relating it to another, not to himself. Soekland v Torch, 123 Ark 253, 185 SW 262. A name selected by a person perpetrating a fraud involving the employment of commercial paper, without intent that it represent any person, notwithstanding there is a person in the community who bears that name. Jordan-Marsh Co. v National Shawmut Bank, 201 Mass 397, 87 NE 740.

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