fictitious debt

fictitious debt
A feigned debt; one not real or genuine; a debt arbitrarily invented and set up, to accomplish an ulterior object; such as to defraud the revenue laws and the state. West Virginia Mortgage & Discount Corp. v Newcomer, 101 W Va 292, 296, 132 SE 748.

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