Pretend
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
To feign or simulate; to hold that out as real which is false or baseless.
Brown v. Perez (Tex. Civ. App.) 25 S. W. 983; Powell v. Yeazel, 46 Neb. 225, 64 N. W. 696.
As to the rule against the buying and selling of "any pretended right or title," see Pretensed Right or Title.