Collusion
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action againsi the other for some é6vil purpose, as te defraud a third party of his right.
Cowell.
A secret arrangement between two or more persons, whose interests are apparently conflicting, to make use of the forms and would not give them, by deceiving a court or its officers. In divorce proceedings, collusion is an agreement between husband and wife that ene of them shall commit, or appear to have committed, or be represented in court as having committed, acts constituting a cause of divorce, for the purpose of enabling the other to obtain a divorce.
Civil Code Cal. $114.
But it also means connivance or conspiraey in inillating or prosecuting the suit, as where there is a compact for mutual aid in carrying it through to a decree.