Accessory

Incident, appurtenant, or belonging to; in the criminal commission of crima Ac- In Scots law. Accessory action: an action "proving the tenor," for In the civil law. Accessory contract ■or auxiliary to another, as that of an obligation which is incident to

In crimmal law. Contributory to, or aiding in the commission of a crime. Called in the Roman law, ope et eansilio, and in the Scotch law, art and part. iq. V.) Frsk. Inst. b. 4, tit. 4, § 10. !ore commonly written accessary, especially when used as a substantive. See Accessary.