In Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decreet. It has the same sense In the clvll law. Dig. 50, 17, 49, 155. And see oregon v. Jennings, 119 U. S. 74, 7 Sup. Ct. 124, 30 L. Ed. 323
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
