Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)dictionaries

Pretend

To feign or simulate; to hold that out as real whlch is false or baseless. Brown v. Perez (Tex. Civ. App.) 25 S. W. 983; Powell v. Yeazel, 46 Neb. 225, 64 N. W. 695. As to the rule against tiie buying and selling of “any pretended right or title,’* see Pbetbnsed Right ob Title

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