Collusion

Collusion, a deceitful agreement between two or more persons to defraud or prejudice a third person, or for some improper purpose. The most common cases of collusion occur in arrangements between bankrupts and their creditors, such as payment by anticipation to a favoured creditor on the approach of bankruptcy, arrangements for granting preferences by circuitous transactions or otherwise. Transactions in which there is evidence of collusion are reducible at common law, and many of the same nature are struck at by the bankruptcy statutes. Collusion in judicial proceedings is an agreement between two persons that one should institute a suit against the other in order to obtain a judicial decision for some sinister purpose. The judgment so obtained is null. Collusion between petitioner and respondent in a suit for dissolution of marriage bars the suit.