Legal Definition and Related Resources of Corruption

An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others. It includes bribery, but is more comprehensive, because an act may be corruptly done, though the advantage to be derived from it be not offered by another. Merlin, Repert. Something against law; as a contract by which the borrower agreed to pay the lender usurious interest. It is said, in such case, that it was corruptly agreed, etc.

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This definition of Corruption is based on the The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary . This entry needs to be proofread.

Vocabularies (Semantic Web Information)

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noun

• abuse of public trust
• act of bribing
• act of profiteering
• baseness
• breach of faith
• breach of trust
• bribery
• complicity
• conduct involving graft
• corrupt inducement
• corruptela
• corruptibility
• corruptio
• crime
• criminality
• debasement
• deception
• depravatio
• deviation from rectitude
• deviousness
• disgrace
• dishonesty
• dishonor
• disloyalty
• disrepute
• feloniousness
• fraudulence
• fraudulency
• graft
• illegality
• improbity
• indirection
• injustice
• jobbery
• knavery
• lack of conscience
• lack of principle
• lack of probity
• malignancy
• obliquity
• perfidiousness
• perfidy
• perversion of integrity
• scoundrelism
• turpitude
• unscrupulousness
• venality
• villainousness
• villainy
• want of principle
• wickedness
• Associated Concepts: corruption in public office foreign phrases: Corruptiooptimiestpessima
• The corruption of the best is worst
• Maledicta est expositio quae corrumpit textum
• It is a cursed interpretation which corrupts the text

English Legal System: Corruption

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Corruption :

See bribery and corruptio

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Corruption

(You may find corruption at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

mid-14c., of material things, especially dead bodies, also of the soul, morals, etc., from Latin corruptionem (nominative corruptio), noun of action from past participle stem of corrumpere (see corrupt). Of public offices from early 15c.; of language from late 15c.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Corruption in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term corruption into Spanish: corrupción (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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See Also

• Social Problem
• Crime
• Delinquency
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Delinquent
• Social Issues
• Crime Prevention

Hierarchical Display of Corruption

Law > Criminal law > Offence
Social Questions > Social affairs > Social problem > Crime
Politics > Politics and public safety > Politics > Political behaviour > Political morality
International Organisations > World organisations > World organisation > International Anti-Corruption Academy
Law > Civil law > Civil law > Abuse of power
Politics > Politics and public safety > Public safety > Whistleblowing

Meaning of Corruption

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Translation of Corruption

• Spanish: Corrupción
• French: Corruption
• German: Korruption
• Italian: Corruzione
• Portuguese: Corrupção
• Polish: Korupcja

Thesaurus of Corruption

Law > Criminal law > Offence > Corruption
Social Questions > Social affairs > Social problem > Crime > Corruption
Politics > Politics and public safety > Politics > Political behaviour > Political morality > Corruption
International Organisations > World organisations > World organisation > International Anti-Corruption Academy > Corruption
Law > Civil law > Civil law > Abuse of power > Corruption
Politics > Politics and public safety > Public safety > Whistleblowing > Corruption

See also

• Crime
• Organised crime
• Political morality
• Abuse of power