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'Compounding a felony' was an offence under common law in England. It consisted of a prosecutor or victim of an offence accepting money or money's worth in exchange for dropping a prosecution for a felony. The offence, which was a misdemeanour, was abolished in England in 1967, although it might still be prosecuted as perverting the course of justice, and the separate offence of 'compounding treason' survives.