 | Robert Samuel Wright - Conspiracy - 1887 - 334 pages
...dangerous to the public peace and to private security. In State v. Buchanan,i it was said that " every conspiracy to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act for an illegal, fraudulent, malicious, or corrupt purpose, or for a purpose which has a tendency to... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1888 - 830 pages
...be between principal and clerk. Case intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means." *424l *^ulcany v- ^eev LR, 3 HL 31 7. It must be by two -I at least, for if two be... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1890 - 498 pages
...Hutcliins2. But what is the definition of an illegal combination ? It is an agreement by one or more to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means : CfConnell v. The Queen3; 7?. v. Parnell4; and the question to be solved is whether... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - Corporation law - 1891 - 886 pages
...Torts, 207. But •what is the definition of an illegal combination? It is an agreement by one or more to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. Regina v. O'Connel, 11 Cl. & F. 135 ; Regina v. Parnell, 14 Cox CC COS. And the question... | |
 | Charles Andrew Ray - Antitrust law - 1892 - 580 pages
...forth that the defendants did more than conspire to do the acts.' From all which it results that every conspiracy to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act for an illegal, fraudulent, malicious, or corrupt purpose, or for a purpose which has a tendency to... | |
 | George Wesley Hale - Police - 1892 - 306 pages
...a species of fraud and is punished in most states. Conspiracy. The agreement of two or more persons to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. Contempt of court is where a person refuses to obey a legal order of a court or does... | |
 | Canada - Criminal law - 1894 - 1076 pages
...conspiracy consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. So long as such design rests in intention, only, it is not indictable. A conspiracy... | |
 | Thomas Sydenham Cogley - Labor laws and legislation - 1894 - 408 pages
...to enforce their object by simultaneously breaking their contracts of service ? A conspiracy may be to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. If the jury deemed the object lawful, they would further say if the means employed... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1895 - 826 pages
...State v. Buchanan, 5 Ear. & J. 317, 352, 355, the Court of Appeals of Maryland adjudged that : " Every conspiracy to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act for an illegal, fraudulent, malicious or corrupt purpose, or for a purpose which has a tendency to... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1030 pages
...CONSPIRACY. — Conspiracy, as commonly understood, 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... | |
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A conspiracy, it is said,f consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. 
