Law of Conspiracy
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Judge-made doctrine, extended widely by the end of the eighteenth century, which combined with the Combination Act to criminalise trade combinations.
A conspiracy, it is submitted, included in 1800 a combination for any of the following purposes;
Behind the Combination Act—and this is a matter of primary importance—there stood the law of conspiracy.
The law of conspiracy had by the end of the eighteenth century received under judicial decisions a very wide extension.