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Term Definition Constructive Knowledge - information that is inferred, implied or imputed to one by a judicial interpretation based on the context of the facts at issue.
Application in Divorce Litigants may be held to have "constructive knowledge" of matters of public record.

The idea of constructive knowledge prohibits a party from being "willfully ignorant" of what he or she reasonably should have known.