Collusive lawsuit

A collusive lawsuit, collusive action or friendly suit is a lawsuit in which the parties to the suit have no actual quarrel with one another, but one sues the other to achieve some result desired by both.^[1]

^ Rapalje, Stewart; Lawrence, Robert Linn (1888). A Dictionary of American and English law: with definitions of the technical terms of the canon and civil laws. Also, containing a full collection of Latin Maxims, and citations of upwards of forty thousand reported cases in which words and phrases have been judicially defined or construed. Vol. 1. New York Public Library: Frederick D. Linn & Co. p. 553.

[RapaljeandLawrence-1] Rapalje, Stewart; Lawrence, Robert Linn (1888). A Dictionary of American and English law: with definitions of the technical terms of the canon and civil laws. Also, containing a full collection of Latin Maxims, and citations of upwards of forty thousand reported cases in which words and phrases have been judicially defined or construed. Vol. 1. New York Public Library: Frederick D. Linn & Co. p. 553.

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