Definition of Assumed name

1. Noun. A name that has been assumed temporarily.

Exact synonyms: Alias, False Name
Generic synonyms: Name

2. Noun. (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation.
Exact synonyms: Dba, Doing Business As, Fictitious Name
Generic synonyms: Name
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Definition of Assumed name

1. Noun. An alias, especially one adopted in order to deceive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Literary usage of Assumed name

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... a series of six letters to a Presbyterian minister, writing under the assumed name of Kirwan; these letters are considered models of good English and ..."

2. Trust Laws and Unfair Competition by United States Bureau of Corporations, Joseph E. Davies (1916)
"... for any person or persons to transact business within the State under any assumed name, or under any designation or name, corporate or otherwise, ..."

3. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"... Audubon's sister—Fougere and Muguet taken to France—Audubon's adoption and baptism—His assumed name—Dual personality in legal documents—Source of ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Fimmti, native of Ferrara ; who, vnder the assumed name of 1U a hornet, made the campaigns against the ..."

5. The Modern Law of Partnership: Including a Full Consideration of Joint ...by Scott Rowley by Scott Rowley (1916)
"What is a fictitious or assumed name, within the statutes.—It is held in Michigan that under the statute,28 the adoption by a firm composed of brothers of ..."

6. Forms of Pleading in Actions for Legal Or Equitable Relief: Prepared with by Austin Abbott, Carlos Coolidge Alden (1898)
"Complaint by Executor or Administrator, against Savings Bank for Deposit made by Decedent in an assumed name. I. [Allege death, and Utters to plaintiff as ..."

7. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"It may, however, be an assumed name,3 although such a name has been held not to ... The assumed name may be by the inadvertent omission of the suffix " Jr." ..."

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