Common informer

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(Law)

one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution therefor.

- Bouvier.

See also: Informer

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive ?

(1957-58) "The Common Informer." Economic History Review 10: 221-37.

Economic liberty and the official law books in colonial Massachusetts

Beresford, "The Common Informer, the Penal Statutes and Economic Regulation," Economic History Review 10, no.

"DAMN YOU, YOU INFORMING BITCH." VOX POPULI AND THE UNMAKING OF THE GIN ACT OF 1736

The practice of the common informer, reports the Britannica, was "not without its dangers.

Tripp wire: how informers ended up behind every office potted plant

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