What is BRIBE? Definition of BRIBE in Black's Law Dictionary
Anything of value; any gift, advantage or emolument; any price, reward or favor. State v. Douglas, 70 S.D. 203, 16 N.W.2d 489, 496. Any money, goods, right in action, property, thing of value, or any preferment, advantage, privilege or emolument, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given, or accepted, with a corrupt intent to induce or influence action, vote, or opinion of person in any public or official capacity. People
v. Van de Carr, 87 App.Div. 386, 84 N.Y.S. 461; People v. Ward, 110 Cal. 369, 42 P. 894; Williams v. State, 188 Ind. 283, 123 N.E. 209, 213. It is a gift, not necessarily of pecuniary value, bestowed to influence the conduct of the receiver, and must be of substantial value to him. People v. Hyde, 156 App.Div. 618, 141 N.Y.S. 1089, 1093.
Payment of corporate funds by director and executive officer of the corporation to officials of labor union to prevent ruinous strikes which union officials were under no legal duty to call as "bribe". Hornstein v. Paramount Pictures, Sup., 37 N.Y.S.2d 404, 412.
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