common intent

common intent
The intent of two or more persons acting in concert to commit a specific crime, or to commit acts from which the law will infer a community of intention. Regina v Doddridge (Eng) 8 Cox CC 335. The corrupt intent existing in the minds of the parties to a conspiracy. 16 Am J2d Consp § 9.

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  • common intent — noun see common intendment …   Useful english dictionary

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  • intent — Design, resolve, or determination with which person acts. Witters v. United States, 70 U.S.App.D.C. 316, 106 F.2d 837, 840. A state of mind in which a person seeks to accomplish a given result through a course of action. As used in intentional… …   Black's law dictionary

  • intent — Design, resolve, or determination with which person acts. Witters v. United States, 70 U.S.App.D.C. 316, 106 F.2d 837, 840. A state of mind in which a person seeks to accomplish a given result through a course of action. As used in intentional… …   Black's law dictionary

  • intent — Adjective: With fixed purpose; earnest; determined; engrossed. Noun: Purpose. The purpose to use a particular means to effect a certain result. Baker v State, 120 Wis 135, 97 NW 566. A constituent element of all criminal acts, but not necessarily …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • common — Belonging or shared equally by more than one. Of frequent occurrence. Without special or distinguishing characteristics. An incorporeal hereditament which consists in a profit which one man has in connection with one or more others in the land of …   Black's law dictionary

  • common — Belonging or shared equally by more than one. Of frequent occurrence. Without special or distinguishing characteristics. An incorporeal hereditament which consists in a profit which one man has in connection with one or more others in the land of …   Black's law dictionary

  • common purpose — See common intent; prosecution of a common purpose …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • common intendment — noun or common intent : customary or natural meaning as legally construed compare intendment …   Useful english dictionary

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