CORRUPTIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. Merl. Rep. h.t. 
  
       2. By corruption, sometimes, is understood 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, &c.