Stifling A Prosecution

Agreeing, in consideration of receiving a pecuniary or other advantage, to abstain from prosecuting a person for an offense not giving rise to a civil remedy, e. g., perjury. As a general rule, such an agreement invalidates any transaction of which it forms part. 6 Q. B. 308; 1 Campb. 45; L. R. 1 H. L. 200. STILLICIDIUM (Lat.)

In civil law. The rainwater that falls from the roof or eaves of a house by scattered drops. When it is gathered into a spout, it is called flumen. Without the constitution of one or other of these servitudes, no proprietor can build so as to throw the rain that falls from his house directly on his neighbor's grounds; for it is a restriction upon all property, nemo potest immittere in alienum; and he who, in building, breaks through that restraint, truly builds on another man's property; because to whomsoever the area belongs, to him also belongs whatever is above it, eujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum. 3 Surge, Confl. Laws, 405. See "Servitus;" Inst. 3. 2. 1; Dig. 8. 2. 2.

Agreeing, in consideration of receiving a pecuniary or other advantage, to abstain from prosecuting a person for an offense not giving rise to a civll remedy; e. p., perjury. Sweet.