An agreement between two or more persons to commit a specified offense, such as a conspiracy to commit money laundering An overt act in furtherance of the agreement may be required
basically this is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime Conspiracy is a crime in its own right and you can be convicted of conspiracy to commit a crime even though the crime itself was never actually committed
A corrupt or unlawful combination or agreement between two or more persons to do by concerted action an unlawful act or do a lawful act by unlawful means
1 A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to commit a lawful act by unlawful means A conspiracy to injure another is an actionable tort; it may also be a criminal offense
Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal. Seven men, all from Bristol, admitted conspiracy to commit arson He believes there probably was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy in 1963
a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy
A combination of two or more persons that by concerted action seek to accomplish an unlawful purpose or to accomplish a lawful purpose by unlawful means (LE)
A conspiracy is an agreement between a group of people which other people think is wrong or is likely to be harmful. There was no evidence to link the brigade to any conspiracy against Mr Bush. Agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means. Some U.S. states require an overt act in addition to the agreement to constitute conspiracy. Individual conspirators need not even know of the existence or the identity of all other conspirators. In a chain conspiracy the parties act separately and successively (as in distributing narcotics). A civil conspiracy is not prosecuted as a crime but forms the grounds for a lawsuit. In antitrust law, conspiracies in restraint of trade (e.g., price fixing) are rigorously prosecuted. In the U.S. it is common to punish a conspiracy to commit an offense more harshly than the offense itself, but there has been a growing trend to follow the European example and make the punishment for conspiracy the same as or less than that for the offense itself
- A combination of two or more persons to commit a criminal or unlawful act, or to commit a lawful act by criminal or unlawful means It is essential that there be two or more conspirators; one cannot conspire with himself