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conspiracy
conspiracy pl: -cies [Latin conspiratio, from conspirare to conspire see conspire ] 1 : an agreement between two or more people to commit an act prohibited by law or to commit a lawful act by means prohibited by law ;also : the crime or tort of participating in a conspiracy compare substantive crime NOTE: Some states require an 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 a crime but that forms the grounds for a lawsuit criminal conspiracy : a conspiracy prosecuted as a crime 2 : a group of conspirators ...
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...
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Cato street conspiracy
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....
Conspiracy to murder
Conspiracy to murder. Misdemeanour, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act,1861, s. 4, punishable by penal servitude not exceeding ten years, or by imprisonment; see R. v. Most, (1881) 7 QBD 244....
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English) (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), came into force on the 19th April, 1908. For a great number of years the merits and demerits of criminal appeal have been discussed in this country.In 1844 Sir Fitzroy Kelly, in a remarkable speech in the House of Commons, advocated criminal appeal, the claim to which has also been recognized by Starkie, Sir John Holker, and Chief Baron Pollock; and even Blackstone,with whom, as Mr. Lecky has observed, admiration of our national jurisprudence was almost a foible, passed some severe criticisms on the stateof the criminal law of his day. In more recent times Lord James of Hereford (then Sir Henry James) introduced a criminal appeal bill into the House of Commons,which was supported by Lord Russell of Killowen (then Sir Charles Russell). And in 1889 Lord Fitzgerald, when introducing a measure into the House of Lords, said that the absene of any provision for rectifying errors andmistakes in criminal cases constituted a blot upon the c...
Central Criminal Court
Central Criminal Court. This court was created by the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1834 (4 & 5 Wm. , c. 36), for the trial of all cases of treasons, murders, felonies, and misdemeanours committed within the county of Middlesex, and in certain specified parts of the counties of Essex, Kent, and Surrey, all of which constitute one county for the purpose of the Act, and also commissions of goal delivery to deliver the goal of Newgate of the prisoners therein charged with any of the offences aforesaid. The Court consists of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and also of the Judges; and there are twelve sessions held in every year, at times fixed by four or more of the judges of the High Court, (English) (Judicature Act, 1925, s. 74). The 17th section of the Act authorizes the Court to try offences committed on the high seas; and the (English) Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 16) [see (English) Palmer's Act], authorizes the King's Bench Division of the High Court to orde...
Criminal contempt
Criminal contempt, any act done or writing published which is calculated to bring a Court or a Judge into contempt, or to lower his authority, or to interfere with the due course of justice or the lawful process of the Court, is a contempt of Court. Any episode in the administration of justice may, however, be publicly or privately criticised, provided that the criticism is fair and temperate and made in good faith. The absence of any intention to refer to a Court is a material point in favour of a person alleged to be in contempt, Thakur Jugal Kishore Singh v. Sitamarhi Central Co.-op. Bank Ltd., AIR 1967 SC 1494 (1497): (1967) 3 SCC 163. [Contempt of Courts Act, 1952, s. 3]Clause (c) of S. 2 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971) merely codifies the definition of 'criminal contempt' which had previously been crystallised by judicial decisions. It defines 'criminal contempt' to mean publication of any matter, or the doing of any other act which(i) scandalises or tends to sca...
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