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accessary
accessary (əkˈsɛsərɪ) n, pl -ries (Law) law a less common spelling of accessory acˈcessarily adv acˈcessariness nThesaurus| Noun | 1. accessary - someone who helps another person commit a crimeaccessoryabetter, abettor - one who helps or encourages or incites anotheraccessory after the fact - a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felonyaccessory before the fact - a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetrationaccessory during the fact - a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent itcollaborator, henchman, partner in crime, confederate - someone who assists in a plotcriminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Adj. | 1.accessary - aiding and abetting in a crime; "he was charged with being accessory to the crime"accessorysupportive - furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" |
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Related to Accessary: accessories, accessible, HomophonesACCESSARY, criminal law. He who is not the chief actor in the perpetrationof the offence, nor present at its performance, but is some way concernedtherein, either before or after the fact committed.
2. An accessary before the fact, is one who being absent at the timeof, the crime committed, yet procures, counsels, or commands another tocommit it. 1 Hale, P. C. 615. It is, proper to observe that when the act iscommitted through the agency of a person who has no legal discretion nor awill, as in the case of a child or an insane person, the incitor, thoughabsent when the crime was committed, will be considered, not an accessary,for none can be accessary to the acts of a madman, but a principal in thefirst degree. Fost. 340; 1 P. C. 118.
3. An accessary after the fact, is one who knowing a felony to havebeen committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. 4 Bl.Com. 37.
4. No one who is a principal (q.v.) can be an accessary.
5. In certain crimes, there can be no accessaries; all who areconcerned are principals, whether they were present or absent at the time oftheir commission. These are treason, and all offences below the degree offelony. 1 Russ. 21, et seq.; 4 Bl. Com. 35 to 40; 1 Hale, P. C. 615; 1 Vin.Abr. 113; Hawk. P. C. b. 2, c. 29, s. 16; such is the English Law. Butwhether it is law in the United States appears not to be determined asregards the cases of persons assisting traitors. Serg. Const. Law, 382; 4Cranch, R. 472, 501; United States v. Fries, Parnphl. 199.
6. It is evident there can be no accessary when there is no principal;if a principal in a transaction be not liable under our laws, no one can becharged as a more accessary to him. 1 W.& M. 221.
7. By the rules of the common law, accessaries cannot be tried withouttheir consent, before the principals. Foster, 360. The evils resulting fromthis rule, are stated at length in the 8th vol. of Todd's Spencer, pp. 329,330. accessary
Related to accessary: accessories, accessible, HomophonesSynonyms for accessarynoun someone who helps another person commit a crimeSynonymsRelated Words- abetter
- abettor
- accessory after the fact
- accessory before the fact
- accessory during the fact
- collaborator
- henchman
- partner in crime
- confederate
- criminal
- crook
- felon
- malefactor
- outlaw
adj aiding and abetting in a crimeSynonymsRelated Words |