Common Informer

One who, without being specially required by law or. by virtue of his office, gives information of crimes, offenses, or misdemeanors which have been committed, in order to prosecute the offender; a prosecutor.

One who, without being specially required by law or by virtue of his office, gives information of crimes, offences, or misdemeanors which have been committed, in order to prosecute the offender; a prosecutor.

A common prosecutor. A person who habitually ferrets out crimes and offenses and lays information thereof before the ministers of justice, in order to set a prosecution on foot, not because of his office or any special duty in the matter, but for the sake of the share of the fine or penalty which the law allots to the informer in certain cases. Also used in a less invidious sense, as designating persons who were authorized and empowered to bring actions for penalties. U. S. v. Stocking (D. C.) 87 Fed. 861; In re Barker, 56 VL 20.

Defined under Informer in Black's Law Dictionary.

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One who habitually gives, or makes a business of giving information of the violation of any penal statute, with a view to the prosecution of the offender, and to whom the whole or a part of the forfeiture is given.* 3 BL Com. 160. Crabb's Hist. Eng, Law, 609. See InfOTtMT.