Feigned

Fictitious; pretended; supposititious; simulated.

— Feigned accomplice. One who pretends to consult and act with others in the planning or commission of a crime, but only for the purpose of discovering their plans and confederates and securing evidence against them. See People v. Bolanger, 71 Cal. 17, 11 Pac. 800.

— Feigned action. In practice. An action brought on a pretended right, when the plaintiff has no true cause of action, for some illegal purpose. In a feigned action the words of the writ are true. It differs from false action, in which case the words of the writ are false. Co. Litt 361.

— Feigned diseases. Simulated maladies. Diseases are generally feigned from one of three causes,—fear, shame, or the hope of gain.

— Feigned issue. An issue made up by the direction of a court of equity, (or by consent of parties,) and sent to a common-law court, for the purpose of obtaining the verdict of a jury on some disputed matter of fact which the court has not jurisdiction, or is unwilling, to decide. It rests upon a suppositious wager between the parties. See 3 Bl. Comm. 452

See Issue, 2.