'Feigned issue' definitions:

Definition of 'Feigned issue'

From: GCIDE
  • Feigned \Feigned\, a. Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. --Ps. xvii. 1. -- {Feign"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Feign"ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
  • Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly. --Jer. iii. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • Feigned issue (Law), an issue produced in a pretended action between two parties for the purpose of trying before a jury a question of fact which it becomes necessary to settle in the progress of a cause. --Burill. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]