Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A conspiracy.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In old English law. A swearing together; an oath administered to several together; a combination or confederacy under oath. Cowell. In old European law. A compact of the inhabitants of a commune, or municipallty, confirmed by their oaths to each other and which was the basis of the commune. Steph. Leet. 119.