Collusion

fraud, is an son of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law; as, for example, where the husband and wife collude to obtain a divorce for a cause not authorised by law.

4 Eccl. R. 310.

It is nearly synonymous with covin, (q. v.) Collusion and fraud of every kind vitiate all acts which are infected with them, and render them void.. COLONY, a union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother country.

3 W. C. C. R. 287.

The country occupied by the colonists is also called a colony. A colony differs from a possession, or a dependency, (q.v-) For a history of the American colonies, the reader is referred to Story on the Constitution, book I.; 1 Kent. Com. 77 to 80; 1 Dane’s Ab. Index, h. t.