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Excerpt from Report of the Royal Commission on Trade Disputes and Trade Combinations
A conspiracy consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more to do an unlawful act or do a lawful act by unlawful means. 80 lon as such a design rests in intention only it is not indictable. When two agree to carry it into effect, t e very plot is an act in itself, and the act of each of the parties, promise against promise, actus contra actum, capable of being enforced if lawful, punishable if for a criminal object, or or the use of criminal means.
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