Sentence examples for criminal conversation from inspiring English sources

Caroline left her husband in 1836, following which he sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (i.e. adultery).

In the fall of 1874 Theodore Tilton sued Henry Ward Beecher for "criminal conversation" -- adultery -- and for the "alienation of affections" of Tilton's wife.

To get their child accepted, the mothers needed to submit a written petition to prove they were of previous "good character", and that they had only "fallen" into a "criminal conversation", as it was euphemistically called, on this one occasion.

The third option is still available in some states through actions euphemistically titled "alienation of affection" and "criminal conversation". This Note tackles their constitutionality in light of the Supreme Court's growing body of jurisprudence dealing with intimate relations and marital status.

That was not true with the old tort of criminal conversation.

There, she attempted to engage nine elected New York officials in criminal conversation.

The MAC-10 has an effective range of only about 25 yards, but since most criminal conversations have a nasty sort of intimacy, it is functionally as well as aesthetically well suited to the job of intimidation.

J. Christopher Prather, a deputy attorney general in charge of the state's Organized Crime Task Force, said in an affidavit that the task force had "encountered instances where criminals, to avoid interception, purposefully conducted criminal conversations over what was then an untappable point-to-point feature".

"From what we are looking at thus far, it is plain to me that all the criminal conversations take place between Mr. Elmann and Mr. Siminovsky," Mr. Fischetti said, referring to Nissim Elmann, who is accused of finding clients in divorce cases who would provide money to bribe the judge.

"The FBI has authorized him to engage in criminal conversations, including but not limited to, murder, extortion, racketeering, etc., and that is what he was doing here, establishing his credibility on the street with a flunky" who had been arrested on drug charges and was looking to curry favor with authorities.

That remains the central dynamic here: These two cases dominated the American criminal justice conversation in the second half of 2014.