Confederacy : \Con*fed"er*a*cy\, n. (Amer. Hist.)
With the, the Confederate States of America.
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Confederacy : \Con*fed"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. Confederacies. [From
Confederate, a.]
1. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of
men, or states, for mutual support or common action;
alliance.
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies
in vice or leagues of pleasure. --Addison.
He hath heard of our confederacy. --Shak.
Virginia promoted a confederacy. --Bancroft.
2. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a
league; a confederation.
The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic
confederacy that ever existed. --Harris.
Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.
--Dryden.
3. (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an
unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See
Conspiracy.
Syn: League; compact; alliance; association; union;
combination; confederation.
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CONFEDERACY, equity pleading. The fourth part of a bill in chancery usually
charges a confederacy; this is either general or special.
2. The first is by alleging a general charge ofConfederacy : between the
defendants and other persons to injure or defraud the plaintiff. The common
form of the charge is, that the defendants, combining and confederating
together, to and with divers other persons as yet to the plaintiff unknown,
but whose names, when discovered, he prays may be inserted in the bill, and
they be made parties thereto, with proper and apt words to charge them with
the premises, in order to injure and oppress the plaintiff in ti e premises,
do absolutely refuse, &c. Mitf. Eq. Pl. by Jeremy, 40; Coop. Eq. Pl. 9
Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 29; 1 Mont. Eq. Pl. 77; Barton, Suit in Eq. 33; Van
Heyth. Eq. Drafts, 4.
3. When it is intended to rely on a confederacy or combination as a
ground of equitable jurisdiction, the confederacy must be specially charged
to justify an assumption of jurisdiction. Mitf. Eq. Pl. by Jeremy, 41;
Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 30.
4. A general allegation of confederacy is now considered as mere form.
Story, Eq. Pl. Sec. 29; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4169.
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CONFEDERACY, intern. law. An agreement between two or more states or
nations, by which they unite for their mutual protection and good. This term
is applied to such agreement between two independent nations, but it is used
to signify the union of different states of the same nation, as the
Confederacy : of the states.
2. The original thirteen states, in 1781, adopted for their federal
government the "Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the
States," which continued in force until the present constitution of the
United States went into full operation, on the 30th day of April, 1789, when
president Washington was sworn into office. Vide 1 Story on the Const. B. 2,
c. 3 and 4.
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CONFEDERACY, crim. law. An agreement between two or more persons to do an
unlawful act, or an act, which though not unlawful in itself, becomes so by
the confederacy. The technical term usually employed to signify this
offence, is conspiracy. (q.v.)
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