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The Cape Law Journal. Vol. VII, Part 1. Grahamstown: Josiah Slater. The Theory of the Judicial Practice: Judicial Separation a mensa et thoro-Notes on some Controverted Points of Law-The Constitutional Law of the South African Republic-Kafir Government and its practical operation.

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REVIEW.

No. XXIV. October, 1890.

THE LAW OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN ENGLAND

THE

AND IRELAND.-A REPLY.

HE interest and importance of the questions discussed by Mr. J. G. Butcher in his criticisms in the July number of this REVIEW upon my article on the above subject justify me, I hope, in asking permission to say a few words in reply.

The portion of my article upon which the questions arise is that which deals with the law relating to 'conspiracies to injure otherwise than by criminal or fraudulent acts.' Mr. Butcher charges me with inferring from the English authorities a definition of criminal conspiracy which is more limited than the decisions justify,' and on the other hand with inferring from the Irish authorities 'a definition of criminal conspiracy which is more extended than the decisions justify,' and consequently with error in concluding that there has been any wider view of the law of conspiracy adopted in the Irish courts than has been hitherto regarded as settled law by English authorities.

With regard to the English decisions Mr. Butcher has somewhat misconceived the point of my argument. My contention was that if the English authorities alone are looked to, this branch of the law of conspiracy will be found to be in an unsettled condition, and that there are weighty opinions in favour of at least three inconsistent views of what is necessary at common law to constitute a criminal conspiracy of the kind under investigation. So far from inferring a definition' of this class of conspiracies, my point was that no definition had been authoritatively laid down by the English courts.

Mr. Butcher states the following counter proposition to that which he ascribes to me as the result of his investigation of the English authorities: Where the " injury" involves the invasion of a legal right, the combination to do the injury is criminal.' As

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