Friendly Suit
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A suit brought by a creditor in chancery against an executor or administrator, being really a suit by the executor or administrator, in the name of a creditor, against himself, in order to compel the creditors to take an equal distribution of the assets.
2 Williams, Exits, 1915.
Also any suit instituted by agreement between the parties to obtain the opinion of the court upon some doubtful question in which they are interested.