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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense in the civil law.

Dig. 50, 17, 49, 155. And see Oregon v. Jennings, 119 In S. 74, 7 Sup. Ct. 124, 30 L. Ed. 323.