Circumvention
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. Tech. Diet. It has the same sense in the civil law.
Dig. 50. 17. 49. 155; Id. 12. 6. 6. 2; Id. 41. 2. 34.