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 Con·struct·ive a.
 1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power.
    The constructive fingers of Watts.   --Emerson.
 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction, inference, or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
 Constructive crimes Law, acts having effects analogous to those of some statutory or common law crimes; as, constructive treason. Constructive crimes are no longer recognized by the courts.
 Constructive notice, notice imputed by construction of law.
 Constructive trust, a trust which may be assumed to exist, though no actual mention of it be made.
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 constructive trust
      n : a trust created by a court (regardless of the intent of the
          parties) to benefit a party that has been wrongfully
          deprived of its rights [syn: involuntary trust]