Commandment

[Fr. commandement; L. Lat. praeceptum.] In practice. An act of authority, as of a magistrate or judge, in committing a person to prison.

Cowell.

In criminal law. The act or offence of one who commands another to transgress the law, or do any thing contrary to law, as theft, murder, or the like. Bract. fol.

138, 139.

Termes de la ley.

Stat. Westm. 1, c. 14.

Particularly applied to the act of an accessary before the fact, in inciting, procuring, setting on, or stirring up another to do the fact or act.

2 Inst. 182.