Acme Corporation

Acme is the name most frequently used in jurisprudence to indicate a fictional company or corporation (or generically a subject with juridical personality), in order to simulate a concrete case of application or interpretation of the law. Usually, in English-speaking common law the name John Doe is similarly used for a fictional subject with physical personality (Romans used Aulus Agerius and Numerius Negidius, or the triad Titius, Caius, Sempronius).

The origins of the term are the Latin word acme "high point" or "best."

Acme is also:

• the fictional Acme Corporation in the Road Runner cartoons, suppliers of every kind of explosive device and other novelties, such as jet-propelled roller-skates.
• Acme Markets, a real grocery store chain on the United States east coast owned by Albertson's.
• the fictional ACME Detective Agency in the Carmen Sandiego series.
• ACME Laboratories, who also have a list of many ACME's on the web: http://www.acme.com/other_acmes.html
• Acme Novelty Library
• A.C.M.E. S.r.l., an Italian model railway manufacturer based in Milano
• A town in the U.S. state of Washington; see Acme, Washington
• A township in Michigan (See: Acme Township, Michigan and the community within it: Acme, Michigan)
• A township in North Dakota (See: Acme Township, North Dakota)
• The SS Acme was a cargo ship commissioned in the US Navy as the USS Abarenda

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