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单词 accessory before the fact
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accessory before the fact
accessory before the fact n. Law a person who incites or knowingly assists someone to commit an arrestable offence but is not present when the offence is committed; also figurative.
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1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 6v Accessorie beefore the fact, or offence is hee that commaundeth or procureth an other to doe felony and is not there present him selfe when the other doth it.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. A3v/2 There cannot be an accessorie before the fact in manslaughter, because man-slaughter is sodaine and not prepensed.
1781 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 506/1 The Answer, if not written by bishop Gibson himself, was not without the knowledge of certain dignified accessories before the fact.
1848 Jurist 4 Nov. 457/1 Accessories before the fact to any felony..may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished in all respects, as if they were principal felons.
1954 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 35/3 If the awakening was too late to keep these distinguished minds from becoming accessories before the fact, it was also too partial to enable them to bring about a more general social awakening.
2001 S. J. Cannell Tin Collectors (2002) 276 They let him out of that jail-transport vehicle, then took him out and shot him. That makes me an accessory before the fact in a first-degree murder.
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