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COMMON INFORMER. One who, without being specially required by law, or by virtue of his office, gives information of crimes, offences or misdemeanors, which have been committed, in order to prosecute the offenders; a prosecutor. Vide Informer; Prosecutor.

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Beresford, "The Common Informer, the Penal Statutes and Economic Regulation," Economic History Review 10, no.

"DAMN YOU, YOU INFORMING BITCH." VOX POPULI AND THE UNMAKING OF THE ... by Ivis, Frank / Journal of Social History

The practice of the common informer, reports the Britannica, was "not without its dangers.

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