Feigned issue

An issue produced in a pretended action between two parties, for the purpose of trying a single question of fact It was formerly frequently directed by a court of chancery, the issue being produced upon a declaration, and plea, — the plaintiff declaring, by a fiction, that he laid a wager of so much with the defendant, that a certain fact was so, and then averring that it is so, and therefore demanding the sum wagered; the defendant admitting the feigned wager, but denying that the fact is so.