Black’s Law Dictionary 7th Edition, page 1434:
straw man. 1. A fictitious person, esp. one that is weak or flawed. 2. A tenuous and exaggerat ed counterargument that an advocate puts for ward for the sole purpose of disproving it. – Also termed straw-man argument. 3. A third party used in some transactions as a temporary transferee to allow the principal parties to ac complish something that is otherwise imper missible. 4. A person hired to post a worthless bail bond for the release of an accused. – Also termed stramineus homo.
Black’s Law Dictionary 8th Edition, page 4456:
straw man. 1. A fictitious person, esp. one that is weak or flawed. 2. A tenuous and exaggerated counterargument that an advocate puts forward for the sole purpose of disproving it. — Also termed straw-man argument. 3. A third party used in some transactions as a temporary transferee to allow the principal parties to accomplish something that is otherwise impermissible. Cf. DUMMY. 4. A person hired to post a worthless bail bond for the release of an accused. — Also termed stramineus homo. See MEN OF STRAW.