Simulatio Latens
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A species of feigned disease, in which disease is actually present, but where the symptoms are falsely aggravated, and greater sickness is pretended than really exists.
Beck, Med. Jur. 3.
SIMULATION (Lat. simul, together). In French law. The concert or agreement of two or more persons to give to one thing the appearance of another, for the purpose of fraud. Merlin, Repert. With us, such act might be punished by indictment for a conspiracy, by avoiding the pretended contract, or by action to recover back the money or property which may have been thus fraudulently obtained. SINE (Lat.) Without.