Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Crime vitiates everything born of it. See 64 Kan. 216, 91 Am. St. Rep. 216, 56 L. R. A. 275, 67 Pac. 537.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Crime vitiates everything which springs from it. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hili (N. Y.) 523, 531.