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 is the Greek word acme "high point" or "best."

Other uses

Acme is also—

• a fictional corporation, Acme Corporation, from the Looney Tunes Cartoons, suppliers of every kind of explosive device and other novelties, such as jet-propelled roller-skates.
• the fictional detective agency, ACME Detective Agency, in the Carmen Sandiego series.
• a standard for threaded fasteners used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews.
• the German metalcore band (actually spelled "AcMe").
• the name of a tanker ship before her renaming to Abarenda and subsequent commissioning by the US Navy.
• the towns Acme, Michigan, Acme, Pennsylvania and Acme, Washington.
• the townships Acme Township, Michigan and Acme Township, North Dakota.

The use of Acme within trademarks and trade names includes—

• Acme Markets, an American grocery store chain owned by Albertson's.
• Acme Novelty Library, a comic book by cartoonist Chris Ware and published by Fantagraphics Books.
• A.C.M.E. S.r.l., an Italian model railway manufacturer based in Milano.

External links

• ACME Laboratories: List of other ACME's (http://www.acme.com/other_acmes.html)

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