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Definition of Informers
1. informer [n] - See also: informer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Informers
Literary usage of Informers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1844)
"Upon the said request to the king, to appoint commissioners to hear us and the
informers face to face, he gave commission to two persons, whom he nominated ..."
2. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"... c°ßs> 't was held, that all informers upon penal ... as common informers,
though they never before •rie'ved; ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"There are, however, several exceptions to this general rule: some, by act of
parliament, as, where informers and the inhabitants of parishes or other ..."
4. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1891)
"The relations between the government and its informers are of extreme delicacy.
Not to profit by timely Relations information were a crime; but to retain in ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"In at ontest between informers, he is in- f >rmer who, ... The rights of custom
house officers and informers are rights which should be carefully protected. ..."
6. The Spirit of Despotism by Vicesimus Knox (1802)
"The despotic Spirit inclined to avail itself of Spies, informers, false Witnesses,
pretended Conspiracies, and self-interested Associations affecting ..."
7. The Law Chronicle: A Monthly Journal (1857)
"75, QB informers, PAWNBROKERS, MUSICAL LECTURES, &c. A few years ago, and before
the present police system had been put into working order, the carrying out ..."
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