counterletter
counterletter. Civil law. A document in which the parties to a simulated contract record their true intentions. La. Civ. Code art. 2025. • For example, the record owner of real property may acknowledge in a counterletter that another person actually owns the property; the counterletter may then be used when the property is to be recon-veyed after a period. A counterletter can have no effect against a third party acting in good faith. See simulated contract under CONTRACT.