 Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.  Elementary Law - 287. lappuseautors: William Callyhan Robinson - 1882 - 379 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1906 - 712 lapas
...employment. A conspiracy at common law may be denned, in short, as an agreement or combination formed between two or more persons to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. (Smith v. People, 25 1ll. 9.) The gravamen of the offense is the combination, (People... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1873 - 442 lapas
...middle of it. A conspiracy, gentlemen of the jury, is not half so complicated as you might suppose. It is the agreement of two or more persons to do an unlawful act; or it is an agreement of an equal number of persons — that is, two or more — to do a lawful act in... | |
 | 1874 - 810 lapas
...as an index of the value oí" pther public securities. CONSPIRACY, in criminal law, a combination by two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or to do something, not in itself unlawful by criminal or unlawful means. Many things not punishable when done... | |
 | Alexander James Dallas - 1876 - 856 lapas
...indictment for a conspiracy, at common law, may be sustained where there is an unlawful agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means; and authorities may be referred to which support the proposition, that the indictment,... | |
 | 1883 - 1914 lapas
...— COMMON LAW. By the common law a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to do some unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in an unlawful manner. The agreement itself constitutes the offense, whether an act is done in furtherance of the object or... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - 1883 - 770 lapas
...— Association; companionship ; union, in marriage, or of parties to an action. CONSPIRACY.— ? 1. The agreement of two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means, whether the act is committed or not. Mulcnhy v. Reg., LR 3 HL 317; Wright Cr. CorJsp.,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1884 - 1000 lapas
...173, § 8; see, also, Laws 1870, ch. 19; Laws 1860, p. 179, ch. 103, S§ H, 6. Any combination between two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in an unlawful manner, is indictable as a conspiracy. (Peoplev. Trequeer, 1 Whar. Cr. Gas., 142; State v. Ifayberry. 48 Met.,... | |
 | 1912 - 1164 lapas
...<2d Ed.) p. 150. "A party is liable when he authorizes, encourages, directs, or assists an officer to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in an unlawful manner, or to abuse, exceed, or disregard his duty or authority, as, for example, when he directs the service... | |
 | 1886 - 900 lapas
...conspiracy " usually found in text-books and reported cases is that it is an agreement or combination by two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful or criminal means. This definition would probably include few of the acts popularly known... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1886 - 918 lapas
...their assembling was unlawful.] An unlawful assembly is defined as an assembly of persons with intent to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in a tumultuous way, or so as to excite public terror. That is the largest definition of it, but there... | |
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