CONSPIRACY, n. L. See Conspire.
1. A combination of men for an evil purpose an agreement between two or more persons, to commit some crime in concert particularly, a combination to commit treason, or excite sedition or insurrection against the government of a state a plot as a conspiracy against the life of a king a conspiracy against the government.
More than forty had made this conspiracy. Acts 23 .
2. In law, an agreement between two or more persons, falsely and maliciously to indict, or procure to be indicted, an innocent person of felony.
3. A concurrence a general tendency of two or more causes to one event.