Aid

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Help; assistance; support. Aid and abet. In common parlance, assistance, co-operation, encouragement.* Assistance rendered by acts, words of encouragement, or support; or presence, actual or constructive, to render assistance should it become necessary.^ See Decoy. Aider and abettor. One who assists another in the accomplishment of a common design or purpose. He must be aware of and consent to the design." Mere presence is not enough: something must be said or done sliowing consent to • the felonious purpose and contributing to its execution.' Aiders and abettors cannot be punished under a statute which creates a felony, unless the statute applies to all who are guilty, and not alone to the person actually committing the offense. Thus under a statute for confining in the penitentiary " any woman who shall endeavor to conceal the birth of her bastard child," aiders and abettors cannot be punished."

See Conspiracy; Felony; Principal, 5; Liquor, ad fin. 1 Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. 515 (1872), Sneed, J. " Springer i>.

Lewis, 22 Pa. 193 (1833), Woodward, J.; 62 Me. 526; 64 Ga. 128. ' F. aider: L. adjutare iad-jnrare), to help. 'United States v. Gooding, 12 Wheat. 476 (1827), Story, J. » Rainford v. State, BO Ala. 108 (1877), Stone, J. » Adams V. State, 05 Ind. 674-T5 (1879), cases.

Hawk, J.; United States v. Snyder, 14 F. R. 556 (1882): 1 Sup. E. S. 358; 127 Mass. 17. ' Kemp V. Commonwealth, 80 Va. 450 (1885), cases.

Aid and comfort. In treason, any overt let which, if successful, would advance the nterests of a treasonable design, i Actual assistance is not essential.' The subject of a foreign nation who furnished mulitions of war to the Confederates, or did an act Thich would have rendered him liable to punishment lor treason had he owed allegiance to the United 3tates, gave "aid and comfort" to the rebellion, within the meaning of the act of March 12, ISfS (12 3t. L. 830), and cannot recover the proceeds of property captured and paid into the treasury.'^ Municipal aid. Assistance rendered by i municipal or SLquasi municipal corporation, IS, a township or a county, toward some svork of internal improvement. Whence ltd bonds.^ A steam grist-mill may or may not be a work of 'haX nature.* The legislature of a State, unless restrained by the jrganic law, has the right to authorize a municipal iorporation to take stock in any work of internal improvement,, to borrow money to pay for it, and to levy I tax to repay the loan. And this authority can be lonferred in such a manner that the object may be ittaiued with or without the sanction of a popular rote.^ See Bond, Municipal; Corporate, Purpose.

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Cure, remedy, supply. Whence aid ind aider by vei-dict. See Verdict. Aid societies. See Benefit, Society.