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accessory

In law, a criminal accomplice who aids in the commission of a crime committed by someone else. An accomplice may be either ‘before the fact’ (assisting, ordering, or procuring another to commit a crime) or ‘after the fact’ (giving assistance after the crime). An accomplice present when the crime is committed is an abettor.

In Scots law, except for treason, the status of accessory after the crime is not recognized, and in the USA the distinction of the English common law between principal and accessory has by statute been abolished, every person concerned being liable to punishment as a principal.



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Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about to do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In short, so operative were the terrors that surrounded them, that of twenty-four young men, who deserted from a transport, twenty-two were glad to return of themselves, the others being shot by sentinels; and one of their friends, who was supposed to have been accessory to their escape, was carried on shore to behold the destruction of his house and effects, which were burned in his presence, as a punishment for his temerity and perfidious aid to his comrades.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Or is there a pleasure in being accessory to a theft when we cannot commit it ourselves?
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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