Compassing
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Imagining or contriving. COMPATERNITAS (Eng. compaternity).
In the canon law. A kind of spiritual relationship {cognatio spiritualis) contracted by baptism. It was a ground of divorce. Bracton, fol. 298b. CO M PATI Bl L ITY. Capability of harmony or accord. Of Offices. Such harmony between the duties of two offices that they may be discharged by one person. In Divorce Law. Incompatibility of temper is a ground of divorce in one or two states.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Imagining or contriving or plotting. In English law, "compassing the king's death" is treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 76.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Imagining or contriving, or plotting.