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common informer

Government officials would not say whether he was an informer.

He started off as an informer for someone, but he's moved up.

Only once did he go back to the Informer office.

The best policy was to do nothing which might give informers any ground for action.

You will say to your children: I was an informer.

Why do you think that we are free of informers?

In fact, he had been working as a paid police informer.

None of us knew for certain who the informer was.

If nothing else, his career as an informer was coming to an end.

On the run all of the time and watch out for informers.

"Or do you want to bring in somebody who might be an informer?"

It could take years and, in any case, there would be informers inside the Church.

One of his informers on the block had told him so.

Anyone who really needed to reach him, including informers, would find a way, he seemed to be saying.

To make people think someone in the Martin family was the informer.

Game Informer however, gave it a rather positive 7.75 out of 10.

"Informers are usually happy to take money from more than one source."

Or was he a victim, set up by the real informer?

I say you're the obvious informer and the real one.

Not an informer exactly just a front office brown nose.

Only now can it be told: the informer was our 11-year-old son.

He was the hero of the story I had heard from the informer.

Other members had suspected him of being a police informer.

"The informers are necessary for the administration of justice, because they have to give information," he said.

They declined to say which woman's husband had turned informer.

"Then the person who prosecutes me will be a common informer?"

The only difference is that the Common Informer may be paid if he tells the truth.

This formerly included a penalty payable to a common informer.

I'm not a cop nor a common informer nor an officer of the court.

"Haven't you ever heard of a common informer?

In that period most prosecutions for breaching the statutes were brought by common informers, whose reputation was poor.

Such penalties were abolished by section 1 of the Common Informers Act 1951.

The Crown was also prohibited from bringing actions as a common informer (s.1(5)).

He was called the Common Informer.

You know that the house was being watched and that we had assumed that the watchers were just common informers.

Although the word delator itself, for "common informer," is confined to imperial times, the right of public accusation had long existed.

The Common Informers Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo.

Before the Common Informers Act 1951, there were further statutory provisions for the levied penalties to be paid over to an informer.

Heald introduced the Common Informers Act 1951 as a Private Member's Bill.

This Act was affected by sections 1(1) and (3) of the Common Informers Act 1951.

The only difference is that the House of Commons really is low and vulgar; and the Common Informer isn't.

Jonathan Swift described common informers as "a detestable race of people" while Edward Coke called them "viperous vermin".

The Common Informers Act 1575 (18 Eliz 1 c 5) was an Act of the Parliament of England.

As to common informer actions under this Act, see section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Common Informers Act 1951.

The result was that Catholics were placed at the mercy of common informers who harassed them for the sake of gain, even when the government would have left them in peace.

Provision was made in relation to this section by sections 3 and 4 of the Larceny (Advertisements) Act 1870 and by the Common Informers Act 1951.

However, when orders for counterfeit money were sent to him, he refused them: "I will do anything, short of being a common informer against particular persons, to stop the malpractices of the Birmingham coiners."

It was brought to an effective end by the Common Informers Act 1951 but, in 2007, there were proposals to introduce legal provision on the U.S. model back to the United Kingdom.

Now the word "comnon" in "Common Informer" means exactly what it means in "common sense" or "Book of Common Prayer," or (above all) in "House of Commons."

According to its preamble, the purpose of this Act was to discourage vexatious proceedings, at the instance of common informers, against printers and publishers of newspapers, under section 102 of the Larceny Act 1861.