Definition of Crimen Trahit Personam

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

    A crime draws the person with it. See 3 Denio (N. V.), 190, 45 Am. Dec. 468.

  • Crimen trahit personam
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    The crime carries the person, (i e., the commission of a crime gives the courts of the place where it is committed jurisdiction over the person of the offender.) Pcople v. Adams, 3 Denio (N. Y.) 190, 210, 45 Am. Dee, 468.