Duck Test

“If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it most probably is a duck.” Frequently applied United States’ legal principle, which elevates substance over form, i.e., suggests, in areas such as tax and company law, that what a situation in fact is, rather than what it is described as (or named), should drive the analysis and application of legal rules.

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