Particeps Criminis
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A sharer or partaker in crime. Applied, also, to persons participating in an illegal or immoral transaction or contract not criminal. One _may he particeps criminis, and not in pari delicto. 124 N. Y. 156. PARTICEPS PLURES SUNT QUASI unum corpus in eo quod unum jus habent, et oportet quod corpus sit integrum, et quod in nulla parte sit defectus. Many parceners are as one body, inasmuch as they have one right, and it is necessary that the body be perfect, and that there be a defect in no part. Co. Litt. 4. PARTICULA (Law Lat.)
In old English law. Parcel. Perk. c. 10, §§ 674, 676, 679.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A partner in crime. See Accomplice.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A participant in a crime; an accomplice. One who shares or co-operates in a criminal offense, tort, or fraud. Alberger v. White, 117 Mo. 347, 23 S. W. 92; State v. Fox, 70 N. J. Law, 353, 57 Atl. 270.
Defined under Particeps in Black's Law Dictionary.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/. A party