 | Alexander James Dallas - 1876 - 856 pages
...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, if the conspiracy... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1877 - 1000 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 were lawful or unlawful.... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1877 - 766 pages
...doubtless peculiar. It may, unlike most offenses, be committed without any overt act. A criminal purpose to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by criminal means, mutually assented to or agreed upon by two or more persons, may, by such assent and... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 860 pages
...Crowley. peculiar. It may, unlike most offenses, be committed without any overt act. A criminal purpose to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by criminal means, mutually assented to or agreed upon by two or more persons, may, by such assent and... | |
 | 1881 - 496 pages
...broader offense and embraces cases where two or more persons combine, confederate and agree together to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by the use of unlawful means. Section 128 of the Code does not, nor was it intended to interfere with... | |
 | William Callyhan Robinson - 1882 - 444 pages
...1073. 1 Bish. CL, §§ 307, 541. 2 Bish. CL, §§ 131-140. § 449. Of Conspiracy. Conspiracy is the agreement of two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in an unlawful manner. A conspiracy cannot be committed by one person alone, nor by husband and wife... | |
 | Charles Sweet - 1882 - 946 pages
...although they are sometimes spoken of as synonymous. CONSPIRACY consists in the agreement of two or more to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means, whether the act is committed or not." (See Overt Act.) I. § 2. In private law conspiracy is a tort... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - 1882 - 642 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. But where two agree to carry... | |
 | Political Economy pseud - 1882 - 594 pages
...among others, the words of Mr. Justice Wills : "A conspiracy consists in the agreeing by two or more to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means," and then declared the Land League an unlawful conspiracy, in words as plain as could be spoken. He... | |
 | Stewart Rapalje, Robert Linn Lawrence - 1883 - 770 pages
...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., where the criminal... | |
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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. 
