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      • A conspiracy is an agreement or plan, made between two or more people, to engage in an illegal act, to obtain an unlawful objective, or to deprive another person of his legal rights.
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  2. Breaking it down, conspiracy to injure requires a claimant to satisfy a series of elements: concerted action between two or more persons including the defendant (which is the combination) a predominant purpose on the part of the defendant to cause damage to the claimant.

  3. May 31, 2017 · A conspiracy is an agreement or plan, made between two or more people, to engage in an illegal act, to obtain an unlawful objective, or to deprive another person of his legal rights. A conspiracy may be engaged in to move a plan forward, each person involved aware of his or her part.

  4. (With a and plural) A combination of persons for an evil or unlawful purpose; an agreement between two or more persons to do something criminal, illegal, or reprehensible (especially in relation to treason, sedition, or murder); a plot.

  5. Under the common law, conspiracy is usually described as an agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means. This definition is delusively simple, however, for each of its terms has been the object of extended judicial exposition.

  6. Oct 10, 2024 · This Practice Note on the civil economic tort of unlawful means conspiracy identifies the key elements of the tort: a combination or concerted action, use of unlawful means, knowledge of the unlawfulness, intention to injure the claimant, an overt act in pursuance of the agreement and resulting damage.

  7. Oct 25, 2016 · An economic tort in which two or more persons combine or conspire together, using unlawful means, and with a common intention of causing damage to the victim of the conspiracy who suffers a loss, which is usually a financial loss. Examples of unlawful means conspiracy cases include:

  8. Definition & Citations: In criminal law. A combination or confederacy between two or more persons formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, some unlawful or criminal act, or some act which is innocent in itself, but becomes unlawful when done by the concerted action of the conspirators, or for the purpose of using criminal ...