Commandment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Practice. An act of authority, as of a magistrate or judge, in committing a person to prison.
Cowell.
In Old Criminal Law, The act or offense of one who commands another to transgress tha law, or do anything contrary to law, as theft, murder, or the like. Braeton, fols.
138, 139; Termes de la Ley; St. Westminster I. c. 14.
Particularly applied to the act of an accessory before the fact, in inciting, procuring, setting on, or stirring up another to do the fact or act.
2 Inst. 128.