| 单词 | principal in the first, or second, degree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprincipal in the first, or second, degree d. Criminal Law. Relative measure of criminality, as in principal in the first, or second, degree: see quots. In U.S. Law, A distinctive grade of crime (with different maximum punishments), as ‘murder in the first degree’, or ‘second degree’. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > quality of being (a) criminal > degree of criminality in (a certain) nature1625 degreea1676 a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) I. 613 Those, who did actually commit the very fact of treason, should be first tried before those, that are principals in the second degree. a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) I. 615 By what hath been formerly deliverd, principals are in two kinds, principals in the first degree, which actually commit the offense, principals in the second degree, which are present, aiding, and abetting of the fact to be done. 1797 Jacob's Law Dict. at Accessary A man may be a principal in an offence in two degrees..he must be certainly guilty, either as principal or accessary..and if principal, then in the first degree, for there is no..superior in the guilt, whom he could aid, abet, or assist. 1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Writings (1892) I. 65 They introduced [1796] the new terms of murder in the 1st and 2d degree. 1877 J. F. Stephen Digest Crim. Law art. 35 Whoever actually commits or takes part in the actual commission of a crime is a principal in the first degree, whether he is on the spot when the crime is committed or not. < as lemmas |
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