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Home Dictionary Name: feigningFeigned issue
Feigned issue, a proceeding whereby an action was supposed to be brought by consent of the parties to determine some disputed right without the formality of pleading, saving thereby both time and expense. It might be ordered either by a Court of Law of Equity, or by a judge under the repealed Interpleader Act (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 58). Before the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), s. 19, questions of fact were often tried by means of a pretended wager between the parties interested. But by the last-named Act, in every case, where any Court of Law or Equity desired to have any question of fact decided by a jury, the Court might direct a writ of summons to be sued out by such person as it thought ought to be plaintiff, against such person as it thought ought to be defendant, and thereupon proceedings went on as upon a feigned issue. Compare R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXIV., R. 9.A proceeding in which the parties, by consent, have an issue tried by jury without actually bringing formal action, Bla...
Feigning
That feigns insincere not genuine false...
Feign
Feign, to make up or fabricate, to make a false show of Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 632....
Sponsio judicialis
Sponsio judicialis, the feigned issue of the Roman Law. See FEIGNED ISSUE....
Coyness
The quality of being coy feigned ounr bashful unwillingness to become familiar reserve...
Dissemble
To hide under a false semblance or seeming to feign something not to be what it really is to put an untrue appearance upon to disguise to mask...
Dissimulate
Feigning simulating pretending...
dissimulation
The act of dissembling a hiding under a false appearance concealment by feigning false pretension hypocrisy...
Dummerer
One who feigns dumbness...
Fable
A Feigned story or tale intended to instruct or amuse a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept an apologue See the Note under Apologue...
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