Agens
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. [from agere, q. v.1 One who acts or does an act; in the "nfl civi Flaw, a plaintiff. Inst. 4. 6. 33. Hence the English agent. Agentes et consentientes pari poena plectentur; those who do an act, and those who consent to it, shall suffer the same punishment. 5 Co. 80.