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Friendly Suit

A suit brought by a creditor in chancery agninst an executor or administrator, being really a suit hy the executor or administrator, in the name of a creditor, against himself, in order to compel the creditors to take an equal distribution of the assets. 2 Williams, Ex’rs, 1915

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)