---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 881"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "881"
heading: "Art. 81. Conspiracy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/881"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §881. Art. 81. Conspiracy

- (a) Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who conspires with any other [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to commit an offense under this chapter shall, if one or more of the conspirators does an act to effect the object of the conspiracy, be punished as a court-martial may direct.
- (b) Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who conspires with any other [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to commit an offense under the law of war, and who knowingly does an overt act to effect the object of the conspiracy, shall be punished, if death results to one or more of the victims, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial or [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission may direct, and, if death does not result to any of the victims, by such punishment, other than death, as a court-martial or [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission may direct.

## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 66; Pub. L. 109–366, § 4(b), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2631.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 881 | 50:675. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 81), 64 Stat. 134. |

The words “or persons” are omitted as surplusage, since under section 1 of title 1 words importing the singular may apply to several persons.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–366 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).