Collusion
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. The act of married persons in procuring a divorce by mutual consent, whether by the preconcerted commission, by one, of a matrimonial offense, or by failure, in pursuance of agreement, to defend divorce proceedings. It is distinguished from "connivance," which is the abetting by a spouse of a matrimonial offense in order to procure a divorce there-