Collusion

A deceitful agreement or compact between two or more persons, for the one party to bring an action against the other for some evil purpose, as to 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 proceedings of law in order to defraud a third person, or to obtain that which justice would not give them, by deceiving a court or it officers.

Baldwin v. New York, 45 Barb. (N. Y.) 359; Belt v. Blackburn, 28 Md. 235; Railroad Co. v. Gay, 86 Tex. 571, 26 S. W. 599, 25 In In A. 52; Balch v. Beach, 119 Wis. 77, 95 N. W. 132.

In divorce proceedings; collusion is an agreement between husband and wlfe that one 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 aiso means connivance or conspiracy in initiating or prosecuting the suit, as where there is a compact for mutual aid in carrying it through to a decree.

Beard v. Beard, 65 CaL 354, 4 Pac. 229; Pohlman v. Pohiman, 60 N. J. Eq. 28, 46 Atl. 658; Drayton v. Drayton. 54 N. J. Eq. 298, 38 Atl. 25.