| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In the manner of an accessary.[Websters]
2. In an assistant, adjuvant, attendant or helpful manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a confederate manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an additional, extra, additive or supplemental manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a subordinate manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In an accidental or incidental manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In an appurtenant, appendant or adjunctive manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a collateral, circumstantial or abreast manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In an odd or part-time manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective accessary.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (accessary) | 1. Aiding and abetting in a crime.[Wordnet]. 2. Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor.[Websters]. 3. Being auxiliary, assistant or adjuvant.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being secondary, subordinate or ancillary.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being confederate.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being criminal.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being additional, extra, supplementary, supplemental or supernumerary.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being accidental, incidental, adventitious or circumstantial.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being appurtenant or adjunctive.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb accessarily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ACCESSARILY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: accessary
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Law | ACCESSARY, criminal law. 1. He who is not the chief actor in the perpetration of the offence, nor present at its performance, but is some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. 2. An accessary before the fact, is one who being absent at the time of, the crime committed, yet procures, counsels, or commands another to commit it. 1 Hale, P. C. 615. It is, proper to observe that when the act is committed through the agency of a person who has no legal discretion nor a will, as in the case of a child or an insane person, the incitor, though absent when the crime was committed, will be considered, not an accessary, for none can be accessary to the acts of a madman, but a principal in the first degree. Fost. 340; 1 P. C. 118. 3. An accessary after the fact, is one who knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon. 4 Bl. Com. 37. 4. No one who is a principal (q.v.) can be an accessary. 5. In certain crimes, there can be no accessaries; all who are concerned are principals, whether they were present or absent at the time of their commission. These are treason, and all offences below the degree of felony. 1 Russ. 21, et seq.; 4 Bl. Com. 35 to 40; 1 Hale, P. C. 615; 1 Vin. Abr. 113; Hawk. P. C. b. 2, c. 29, s. 16; such is the English Law. But whether it is law in the United States appears not to be determined as regards the cases of persons assisting traitors. Serg. Const. Law, 382; 4 Cranch, R. 472, 501; United States v. Fries, Parnphl. 199. 6. It is evident there can be no accessary when there is no principal; if a principal in a transaction be not liable under our laws, no one can be charged as a more accessary to him. 1 W.& M. 221. 7. By the rules of the common law, accessaries cannot be tried without their consent, before the principals. Foster, 360. The evils resulting from this rule, are stated at length in the 8th vol. of Todd's Spencer, pp. 329, 330. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: accessary
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Accessary after the fact | One who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense. Note: This word, as used in law, is spelt accessory by Blackstone and many others; but in this sense is spelt accessary by Bouvier, Burrill, Burns, Whishaw, Dane, and the Penny Cyclopedia; while in other senses it is spelt accessory. In recent text-books on criminal law the distinction is not preserved, the spelling being either accessary or accessory. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Accessary before | The fact. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Accessary before the fact | (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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