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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

crim. law. This term includes in its meaning all persons who have been concerned in the commission of a crime, all the partsceps criminis, whether they are considered in strict legal propriety, as principals in the first or second degree, or merely as accessaries before or after the fact, Foster, 341; 1 Russell, 21; 4 Bl. Com. 331; 1 Phil. Ev. 28; Merlin Reépertoire, mot Complice.