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.
The law of conspiracy had by the end of the eighteenth century received under judicial decisions a very wide extension.
Since a combination to commit a crime is ipso facto a conspiracy, it follows that a combination for any purpose made or declared criminal by the Combination Act, 1800, e.
A conspiracy, it is submitted, included in 1800 a combination for any of the following purposes;