 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1884 - 666 pages
...persons conspire ... to commit any offence against the United States, . . . and one or more of each- parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all Statement of Facts. the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1885 - 1126 pages
...upon section 5440 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows: "If two or more persons conspire * * * to defraud the United States in any manner, or for...conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of," etc. The nature of the acts charged against the defendants in the indictment,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1156 pages
...all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty," etc, It is argued that tlte words " or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose," found in this section, indicate what is meant by "any offense against the United States," as used in... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1885 - 944 pages
...States."1 immaterial," so said the court, "what means were used to defraud, as it is criminal to conspire to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and the court does not care to know whether the mode adopted to accomplish the end proposed is made criminal... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1886 - 792 pages
...more persons conspire, either to commit any Statement of Facts. offence against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for...conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $1000, and not more than $10,000, and to imprisonment not more... | |
 | Railroads - 1888 - 398 pages
...States Statutes: If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States or to defraud the United States in any manner, or...conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 884 pages
...section provides that "if two or more persons conspire to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for...any act to effect the object of the conspiracy," all of the parties shall be liable to a penalty. A conspiracy to defraud the United States can not exist... | |
 | Illinois - Law - 1887 - 2194 pages
...defraud the State of Illinois, or any county, incorporated city, village, town or township thereof, in any manner, or for any purpose, and one or more...any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars, and not... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1887 - 750 pages
...If two or more persons conspire either to commit anv offense against the United States or to defrand the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to affect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty... | |
 | Robert Samuel Wright - Conspiracy - 1887 - 334 pages
...United States v. Gordon, 22 Fed. Rep., 250, AD 1884. (4814) defraud, as it is criminal to conspire to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and the court does not care to know whether the mode adopted to accomplish the end proposed is made crimi... | |
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If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose... 
