constructive notice
constructive notice see notice

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

constructive notice
n.
Notice implied by law, usually because it is in a public record.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


constructive notice
constructive knowledge or constructive notice
knowledge that a person is deemed to have of facts that he would have discovered had he made the usual and proper inquiries. In the law of property, if a person omits to investigate some fact that has been brought to his notice, suggesting the existence of an adverse claim or title, or if he deliberately refrains from making due inquiry in order to avoid obtaining actual knowledge, he will be fixed with constructive knowledge of it.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


constructive notice
The fiction that someone got notice even though actual notice was not personally delivered to that person. The law may provide that a public notice put on the courthouse bulletin board is a substitute for actual notice. Or the court may authorize service by publication when a spouse has left the state to avoid service in a divorce action. The legal advertisement of the summons in an approved newspaper is treated as constructive notice, just as if the summons and petition had been served personally.
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Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.

constructive notice
n.
   a fiction that a person got notice even though actual notice was not personally delivered to him/her. The law may provide that a public notice put on the courthouse bulletin board is a substitute for actual notice. A prime example is allowing service by publication when a spouse has left the state to avoid service (legal delivery of a legal notice) in a divorce action. The legal advertisement of the summons in an approved newspaper is treated as constructive notice, just as if the summons and petition had been served personally.
   See also: constructive

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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