Abettor
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An instigator, or setter on; one that promotes, procures, or assists in, the commission of a crime; a principal in the second degree. The distinction between abettors and accessaries is the presence or absence at the commission of the crime.
Co. Litt. 475; 81 111. 333; 44 Iowa, 104.
Presence and participation are necessary to constitute a person an abettor.
4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 33; 1 Hall (N. Y.) 446; Russ. & R. 99; 9 Bing. N. C. 440; 13 Mo. 382; 1 Wis. 159; 10 Pick. (Mass.) 477. ABEYANCE (Fr. a66a2/er, to expect).
In expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law; the condition of a freehold when there is no person in being in whom it is vested. In such cases, the freehold has been said to be in nubibus (in the clouds), and in gremio legis (in the bosom of the law). It has been denied by some that there is such a thing as an estate in abeyance.
Fearne, Cont. Rem. 513.
See, also, the note to 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 107.