Conspirators - Law Dictionary Search Results

overt act in addition to the agreement to constitute conspiracy. chain conspiracy : a conspiracy in which the conspirators act separately and successively (as in distributing narcotics) civil conspiracy : a conspiracy that is not prosecuted as

Jamaican switch

to assist if both the victim and first conspirator provide good-faith money, the intent being for the two conspirators to leave with all the money, including the victim's, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839.

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Conspiratione

Conspiratione, the writ that lay against conspirators, Reg. Brev. 134; Fitz. N.B. 114.

withdraw

1 : to remove oneself from participation [ from a case] ;specif : to cease participation in a conspiracy by an affirmative act of renunciation esp. involving confession to the authorities or communication of abandonment to co-conspirators

conspiratorial

relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators as a conspiratorial whisper

Cato street conspiracy

by means of an armed mob. The scheme was divulged to the authorities by an informer, and the conspirators, the chief of whom was a man named Thistlewood, were apprehended, and five of them brought to trial

Conspiracy

Odgers on the Common Law, 2nd Edn. P. 255. 'If in carrying into effect a criminal conspiracy the conspirators inflict loss and damage on a private individual, he will have a private action for the particular damage

Overt

A treasonable intention is not punish-able unless it is manifested by an overt act. In the same way conspirators may make their criminal purposes clear by some overt act, such as an agreement to further their common

Liberam legem amittere

lands wasted, houses razed, trees rooted up, and one's body committed to prison. It was anciently pronounced against conspirators, but is now disused, the punishment substituted being fine and imprisonment. Hawk. P.C. 61, c. lxxii. S. 9;

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