Conspiracy
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
conspiracy · confederation · the laws relating to conspiracy · writ of conspiracy
in the texts
Against Athenogenes
The legal concept of conspiracy invoked by the speaker to describe the joint scheme by Athenogenes and Antigone to trap him into the agreement.
In circumstances where the laws relating to conspiracy proclaim that you are guilty, are you expecting actually to make a profit?
The Law of Torts
The doctrine addressing when combined action by two or more persons can itself constitute or aggravate an actionable wrong.
It seems however to be now settled for practical purposes that the conspiracy or “confederation” is only matter of inducement or evidence.
Soon after this case was dealt with by the Court of Common Pleas in England, the Supreme Court of New York laid it down (not without examination of the earlier authorities) that conspiracy is not in itself a cause of action.
It is possible, however, that an agreement of this kind might in some cases be held to amount to an indictable conspiracy on the ground of obvious and excessive public inconvenience.
Law in a Free State
The legal doctrine of conspiracy, disputed by the two lawyers as to whether an agreement between a man and a woman to commit fornication falls under it.
' provided that an agreement between a man and a woman to commit fornication is not a conspiracy.