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A.n appearance, semblance, or limuiacrum, as distinguished from that which ts real. A prlma facie or apparent right. Hence, a deceptive a:ppearance; a plausible, a umed exterior, concealing a lack of real- ·1cy; a disguise or pretext. Railroad Co. v. All free, 64 Iowa, 500, 2.0 N. W. 779; Berks County v. Railroad Co., 167 Pa. 102, 31 Atl. 474; Brought on v. Haywood, 61 N. C. 383. In pleading. Ground of action admitted to subsist in the opposite party by the plea.ding of one of the parties to an action, which Ill so setout as to be apparently valid, but which is in reality legally insufficient. This was a term of the ancient rhetor i- [s. 223]