Collusion in United States

Collusion Definition

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 therefor, but without previous agreement as to its conunission. Nelson, Div. & Sep. § 500.

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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 therefor, but without previous agreement as to its conunission. Nelson, Div. & Sep. § 500.

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A conspiracy between two or more persons for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose. In divorce (in U.S. law) law, collusion is a conspiracy of the husband and wife to obtain a decree of divorce by false testimony, such as testimony of adultery (in U.S. law) when none, in fact, occurred.

(Revised by Ann De Vries)

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