Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cabal

A small association for the purpose of intrigue; an intrigue. It is said that five persons during the reign of Charles II named Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington and Lauderdale, conspired to restore Popery and the word cabal represents the initials of these five names.

noun

• band
• camarilla
• clique
• coalition
• collusion
• combination
• complicity
• complot
• confederacy
• connivance
• conspiracy
• council
• design
• factio
• faction
• gang
• intrigue
• junta
• league
• machination
• plot
• ring
• scheme
• secret group
• secret plot
• societas clandestina
• union

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Cabal in Historical Law

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What does Cabal mean in American Law?

The definition of Cabal in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A small coterie of scheming plotters, especially one engaged in secret political machinations. The term is sometimes said to be made up from the initials of members of one such group at the court of Charles II, but that is most likely twaddle, for the French cabale had a similar meaning from before the seventeenth century.