OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES AND AGREEMENTS. obert R S WRIGHT, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW, "Rather to... than . . . by unprofitable subtlety, which corrupteth the TO WHICH IS ADDED INCETON, NJ. THE LAW OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES AND AGREEMENTS Entered according to the Acts of Congress, in the year 1887, by the BLACKSTONE PUBLISHING COMPANY, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. CONTENTS. 22. Arrangement of this Section . 3. Combinations to commit Conspiracy, properly so called, within the meaning of the Three Ancient Ordinances of Conspirators. ? 4. Other Combinations expressly prohibited by Statutes now in force. 5. The Rule of the Seventeenth Century that Combination for any 7. Examination of Cases on Combination against Government . 28. Examination of Cases on Combination to pervert or defeat Justice. 29. Examination of Cases on Combination against Public Morals and ? 12. Examination of Cases on Combinations relating to Trade and Labour-(1.) Restraint of Trade and Disturbance of Markets. 13. Examination of Cases as to Trade and Labour continued :— Conspiracies and Agreements. SECTION I. GENERAL HISTORY OF THE LAW OF CRIMINAL Preliminary Notes. [1. REFERENCES to the cases on conspiracy are made in the text by date and name, without the addition of the books in which the cases are reported. A chronological list of cases will be found in Appendix III.; and also an alphabetical list with the references. Some important cases are set out in full or in part in Appendix II. 2. The word "ruled," as applied to a proposition of law for which a case is cited, is used to signify that the proposition was laid down by a judge acting on assize, or under a special commission, or at nisi prius, or at the Central Criminal Court, or at sessions. The word "held" is used to signify that the proposition was laid down by a judge or judges acting in banc or in a court of appeal.] § 1. General History of Criminal Combinations. The history of the law of criminal conspiracies and combinations may be conveniently divided into three periods, of which the first ends with the sixteenth, and the second with the eighteenth century. [1200-1600.] There appears to be no evidence that, during the first of these periods, any other crime of conspiracy or combination was known to the common law than that which was authoritatively and "finally" defined in A. D. 1305 by the Ordinance of Conspirators, 33 Edw. 1., as consisting in confederacy or alliance for the false and malicious promotion of indictments and pleas, or for em |