Conspire

To make an agreement esp a secret agreement to do some act as to commit treason or a crime or to do some unlawful deed to plot together...

Collude

To have secretly a joint part or share in an action to play into each others hands to conspire to act in concert...

Cato street conspiracy, an extraordinary plot to assassinate the entire Cabinet and get possession of London 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 and executed. See R. v. Thistloewood, (1820) 33 St.Tr. 681; Martineau's History of the Thirty Years' Peace, Bk. II. c. i....

Overt

Overt, open. The expression overt act means an act which shows the intention of the party doing it. It is used principally in connection with treason and conspiracy. 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 design. Overt word means a word the meaning of which is clear and beyond doubt, and see MARKET OVERT....

Liberam legem amittere

Liberam legem amittere, to lose one's free law (called the villanious judgment), to become discredited or disabled as juror and witness, to forfeit goods and chattels and lands for life, to have those 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; 3 Inst. 221....

James hearing

James hearing, means a court proceeding held to determine whether the out of court statements of a co- conspirator should be admitted into evidence, by analysing whether there was a conspiracy, whether the declarant and the defendant were part of the conspiracy, and whether the statement was made in furtherance of the conspiracy, United States v. James, 590 F 2d 575; Fed. R. Evid, 801(d)(2)(E)....

Fugitive criminal

Fugitive criminal, means a person who is accused or convicted of an extradition offence within the jurisdiction of a foreign State and includes a person who, while in India, conspires, attempts to commit or incites or participates as an accomplice in the commission of an extradition offence in a foreign State. [Extradition Act, 1962 (34 of 1962), s. 2(f)]...

Conspiratione

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

Conspiracy

Conspiracy. 'A conspiracy is an agreement by two or more persons to carry out an unlawful common purpose, or to carry out a lawful common purpose by unlawful means. It is a misdemeanour at common law, punishable with fine and imprisonment to any extent; and also with hard labour in the case of ' any conspiracy to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of public justice ''(14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, s. 29); see 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 which he has thus separately suffered'; ibid. pp. 256, 625. There are also, it seems, what may be called civil con-spiracies, i.e., conspiracies which may be the foundation of an action, though not of an indictment; and there are undoubtedly cases in which two or more persons ca...

Catilinarian

Pertaining to Catiline the Roman conspirator resembling Catilines conspiracy...

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