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CONSPIRACY - means 2 different offences.
Under the name of Conspiracy are confounded
by the Common Law Offences of a very different
Nature —
The one is, False Accusation or causeless suit
in a Court of Justice, when conducted or projected?
by more than one.
short of Attempt, is Preparation, called in the old language of Law imagination.
The other is, the conducting or x of an
enterprise to another's prejudice also by
more than one, without any relation to any
Court of Justice. as of a Trader to injure a
rival Trader.
The true mark in this case which serious or might seem to
distinguishes
a conspiracy wrongful from a lawful competition, seems
to be - a man's x his own ?taking his own advantage, not directly
by an action? of benefit to himself, but
indirectly, by a ?working of detriment to his rival:
The common maxim, Sic utere tuo ut alienum
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non ladas, is no sufficient guide upon this
occasion: for in trade, a man idem x uses his
own to the advantage of himself but he x does it to the detriment x of
another — the matter is not helpen neither It helps not the matter neither
but saying to say, that the detriment allow'd to be occasioned
to another is such as shall be damnum sine injuria:
for it is the very point in question
what shall be deemed a damage without injury.
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