Dictionary Search: "IRAC" - Pakistan Law Portal

Bathtub conspiracy

see intra-enterprise con. Spiracy under conspiracy.

Conspiracy

n. An agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act; a combination for an unlawful purpose. 0 In criminal law, conspiracy is a separate offense from the crime that is the object of the conspiracy. - Also termed criminal conspiracy. - conspiratorial, adj. Cf. ATTEMPT (2); SOLICITATION (2)."Conspiracie (conspiratio) though both in Latine and French it be used for an agreement of men, to doe any thing either good or bad: yet in our lawyers bookes, it is alway taken in the evill part." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).

IRAC

A mnemonic acronym used mostly by law students and their writing instructors, esp. as a method of answering essay questions on law exams. 0 The acronym is commonly said to stand for either (1) issue, rule, application, conclusion, or (2) issue, rule, analysis, conclusion.

Piracy

n. 1. Robbery, kidnapping, or other criminal violence committed at sea. 2. A similar crime committed aboard a plane or other vehicle; hijacking.

air piracy

The crime of using force or threat to seize control of an aircraft; the hijacking of an aircraft, esp. one in flight. -Also termed aircraft piracy. 3. The unauthorized and illegal reproduction or distribution of materials protected by copyright, patent, or trademark law. See INFRINGEMENT. - pirate, ub. - piratical (pI-rat-akal), adj. - pirate, n. "[T]he test of piracy [is] not whether the identical language, the same words, are used, but whether the substance of the production is unlawfully appropriated." Eaton S. Drone, A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions 97 (1879).

aircraft piracy

see air piracy under piracy

bathtub conspiracy

See intra-enterprise conspiracy.

chain conspiracy

single conspiracy in which each person is responsible for a distinct act within the overall plan, such as an agreement to produce, import, and distribute narcotics in which each person acts only at one function. ( All participants are interested in the overall scheme and liable for all other participants' acts in furtherance of that scheme. "In a 'chain' conspiracy, the court looks to whether the parties serve as links in a chain. In Blumenthal u. United States (1947), the Supreme Court found that the parties had agreed to sell liquor at prices exceeding the ceiling set by regulations of the Office of Price Administration. The Court found that the agreements were steps in theformulation of one larger general conspiracy. By reason of all having knowledge of the plan's general scope and common end, the disposing of whiskey, they could be drawn together in a single conspiracy." Ellen S. Podgor & Jerold H. Israel, White Collar Crime in a Nutshell 52 (2d ed. 1997).

circle conspiracy

See wheel conspiracy.

civil conspiracy

An agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful act that causes damage to a person or property.

conspiracy in restraint of trade

See RESTRAINT OF TRADE.

criminal conspiracy

See CONSPIRACY.

hub-and-spoke conspiracy

See wheel conspiracy.

hub-and-spoke conspiracy.

See wheel conspiracy under CONSPIRACY.

intra-enterprise conspiracy

Antitrust. A conspiracy existing between two subsidiaries, divisions, or other parts of the same firm. -Also termed bathtub conspiracy.

seditious conspiracy

A criminal conspiracy to forcibly (1) overthrow or destroy the U.S. government, (2) oppose its authority, (3) prevent the execution of its laws, or (4) seize or possess its property. 18 USCA § 2384.

seditious conspiracy.