Definition of Accessary. Meaning of Accessary. Synonyms of Accessary

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Definition of Accessary

Accessary
Accessary Ac*ces"sa*ry (#; 277), a. Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. --Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. --Milton.
Accessary
Accessary Ac*ces"sa*ry (277), n.; pl. Accessaries. [Cf. Accessory and LL. accessarius.] (Law) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. 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.

Meaning of Accessary from wikipedia

- are now more common in historical than in current usage. The spelling accessary is occasionally used, but only in this legal sense. The English legal...
- explained by the Elizabethan pronunciations authórizing (line 6) and áccessary (line 13). C. Knox Pooler notes that line 4 echoes a simile in The Two...
- to have been connected with the Leicester, England, firm of philatelic accessary wholesalers Barrington Smith. He traded under his own name and also as...
- in Murder, etc. Act 1557 4 & 5 Ph. & M. c. 4 7 March 1558 An Act that Accessaries in Murder, and divers Felonies, shall not have the Benefit of Clergy...
- corridor in Saint Paul. Yousif pleaded guilty to the charge of being an accessary after the fact to arson and was sentenced to three years of probation...
- the goods to the insurer. Abarnare. l. To detect or disclose a crime. Accessary. In criminal law. Contributing to or aiding in the commission of a crime...
- down from mothers: Po****r among new adults, arranging them with unique accessaries]. Yomiuri Shimbun. January 12, 2020. Archived from the original on January...
- upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees,...
- Woman. (Prin****l and accessory) c. 14 Appeal against the Prin****l and Accessary. — repealed by Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (Prisoners and...
- or destroying Ships and Vessels; and for the more convenient Trial of Accessaries in Felonies. (Repealed by Criminal Statutes (Ireland) Repeal Act 1828)...