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Accessory (legal term) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An accessory is a person who assists in the commission of a crime, but does not actually participate in the commission of the crime as a joint principal. Furthermore, there must be proof that the accessory knew that his or her action, or inaction, was helping the criminals commit the crime, or evade detection, or escape. AN accessory is he who is not the chief actor in the offense, nor present at its performance, but is someway concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)   (2414 words)

Online Etymology Dictionary The legal term was one a grand jury could write on a bill when it considered the prosecution's evidence insufficient. Legal sense of "course of action of a suit at law" is attested from c.1325. Prosecutor in legal sense is attested from 1670; prosecution in this sense is from 1631. www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=legal&searchmode=phrase   (3089 words)

Celtic Law - A Short Summary However, a satire may be legal, and was used as a legal instrument, as it was one of the pressures, especially against peoples of high rank, to obey the law. If the claimant does not respect a legal postponement, or distrains animals which he would not be allowed to, or distrains on a holy day or in defiance of the protection (turtugud) of a third party or in some other cases, he is guilty of illegal distraint. Wounds inflicted in legal duels are not actionable, and duels have not to be fought to death. www.draeconin.com /database/celtlaw.htm   (15138 words)

Learn more about Legal term in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) A marriage may be dissolved a vinculo, in many states, as in Pennsylvania, on the ground of canonical disabilities before marriage, as that one of the parties was legally married to a person who was then living; impotence, (q. Such a person is either a principal or, an accessory to the crime. When present, aiding, where a felony is committed, he is guilty as principal in the second degree ; when absent, "he is merely an accessory. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/le/legal_term.html   (469 words)

OUP: Borkowski & Du Plessis: Textbook on Roman Law: Glossary of Latin Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The term is also used in Roman law to express the agreement to submit to arbitration (receptum arbitri) and the “guarantee” provided by the captain of a ship, an innkeeper or a stable keeper for the belongings of third parties. The term is used in legal sources to describe a wax-covered writing tablet used for personal correspondence or the boards on which the provisions of a statute were sometimes copied. The term was also used to describe a personal servitude which entitled its holder to use the object of the servitude, but without the benefit of drawing fruits from it. www.oup.com /uk/booksites/content/0199276072/resources/glossary/borkowski_v5.htm   (9092 words)

ESLnotes.com - My Cousin Vinny A legal term for an official hearing before the actual trial, in which the state charges the defendants with a crime. Legal talk: An "objection" is made when one lawyer feels what someone else is saying should not be allowed to be said in court. To be "under oath" is a legal term referring to a person's legal promise to tell the truth, usually after placing their hand on a bible. www.eslnotes.com /movies/html/my-cousin-vinny.html   (4538 words)

chet_limmer_frasa_6|Legal and Ethical Issues|Audio Glossary accessory muscles additional muscles; in regard to breathing, these are the muscles of the neck and the muscles between the ribs. distal a term of direction or position, meaning distant or far away from the point of reference, which is usually the torso. Golden Hour a term trauma experts use to refer to the belief that severely injured patients have the highest survival rates when they are on the operating table within 60 minutes of injury. wps.prenhall.com /chet_limmer_frasa_6/0,6632,412600-,00.html   (4350 words)

Accessory, Criminal Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) In criminal law, an accessory after the fact is a person that assists a criminal after the crime has been committed. For example, the person that hides the criminal, or the loot, may be charged as an accessory after the fact. An accessory before the fact is one who does some act in furtherance of the crime but before it is actually committed by another. www.legal-term.com /accessory-definition.htm   (89 words)

Legal Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) An accessory is a person who assists in or conceals a crime, but does not actually participate in the commission of the crime. In this an accessory is different from an accomplice, who normally is present at the crime and participates in some way. A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. www.wwwtln.com /finance/114/legal-terms.html   (803 words)

Glossary Accessory Not the perpetrator of the crime but in some way involved without being present in the commission of the crime. The term is also used when a case is shifted from a lower court to a higher court. Offender Act O.C.G.A. 42-8-62 (In Part) …Upon fulfillment of the terms of probation, upon release by the court prior to the termination of the period thereof, or upon release from confinement, the defendant shall be discharged without court adjudication of guilt. www.ci-wackenhut.com /Glossary.htm   (3665 words)

FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code The mimimum term of imprisonment is twelve years, and that, therefore, must be imposed for 'perverting the truth' in a single item of a public record, though there be no one injured, though there be no fraud or purpose of it, no gain or desire of it. In testing whether the term of the sentence was unusual and therefore illegal, the court held that a long term of imprisonment in the county jail was unlawful because unusual, and was a gross abuse by the lower court of its discretion. I am brought, then, to the conclusion that the accessory punishments are the basis of the ruling now made, that the legislative discretion was so abused as to cause it to be necessary to declare the law prescribing the punishment for the crime invalid. caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=217&invol=349   (11404 words)

Basement Apartments Accessory apartments are permitted in almost all single detached and semi-detached houses throughout the City of Guelph. Any expenses incurred to upgrade the accessory apartment in order to meet the requirements of the Building or Fire Codes would of course be borne by the property owner. Once the registration is complete, the accessory apartment becomes legal and confirmation of the legal two unit house status is sent to the property owner. guelph.ca /living.cfm?itemid=62065&smocid=1846   (426 words)

North Carolina Appellate Court Cases - Opinions of Court Case Law from NC - North Carolina Court - unoffical reports - ... Rollins' testimony was inadmissible because it embraces a legal term of art, "responsibility." Defendant also complains that the testimony was irrelevant and that it misled the jury into rejecting mitigating circumstances. Instead, it is, in the context used here, a medical term used appropriately by an expert in the field of psychiatry to describe the effect of defendant's mental conditions on her actions. Viewing this evidence in its entirety, we cannot conclude that the (f)(4) mitigating circumstance that defendant was an accomplice in or accessory to the capital felony committed by another person and her participation was relatively minor was supported by substantial evidence. www.romingerlegal.com /northcarolina/HTML/060-97-1.htm   (11561 words)

Tractor Accessories -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) An accessory fruit is a fruit in which the fleshy part is derived not from the ovary (or surrounding stem, if the ovary is inferior) but from some adjacent tissue. The accessory nerve is the eleventh of twelve cranial nerves. There are two parts to the accessory nerve, a spinal part (innervates the muscles around neck), and a cranial part, that splits off, and quickly combines with the vagus nerve. www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/150/tractor-accessories.html   (715 words)

[No title] Accessory before the fact: These persons incited, encouraged, ordered, or incited the actual perpetrator(s) but did not directly assist in the commission of the crime. Accessory after the fact: Did not an accomplice in the crime itself, but who inhibits the detection of the crime and/or apprehension of its perpetrators. If you were an accessory before the fact, you could only be tried in the jurisdiction in which you committed the assisting acts. www.ibiblio.org /jwsnyder/outlines/crimf92.txt   (13696 words)

accessory | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon Accessory (legal term), a person who assists a criminal but is not present at the crime Accessory nucleus, in anatomy, a cranial nerve nucleus "the aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." arlyle. www.babylon.com /definition/accessory/All   (138 words)

Legal Definition of Mortgage In equity all kinds of property; real or personal, which are capable of an absolute sale, may be the subject of a mortgage; rights in remainder and reversion, franchises, and choses in action, may, therefore, be mortgaged; But a mere possibility or expectancy, as that of an heir, cannot. The mortgagor is held to be the real owner of the land, the debt being considered the principal, and the land the accessory; whenever the debt is discharged, the interest of the mortgagee in the lands determines of course, and he is looked on in equity as a trustee for the mortgagor. An equitable mortgage of lands is one where the mortgagor does not convey regularly the land, but does some act by which he manifests his determination to bind the same for the security of a debt he owes. www.lectlaw.com /def2/m040.htm   (584 words)

Legal Definition of Obligation The term obligation also signifies the instrument or writing by which the contract is witnessed. And in another sense, an obligation still subsists, although the civil obligation is said to be a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed for the payment of money, performance of covenants or the like; it differs from a bill which is generally without a penalty or condition though it may be obligatory. Civil obligations are divided into express and implied, pure and conditional, primitive and secondary, principal and accessory, absolute and alternative, determinate and indeterminate, divisible and indivisible, single and penal, and joint and several. www.lectlaw.com /def2/o001.htm   (1255 words)

FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) One who is neither the chief actor in an offense, nor present at its performance, but accedes to or becomes involved in its guilt, either by some previous or subsequent act, as of instigating, encouraging, aiding, or concealing, etc., is an accessory. An accomplice is one who participates in the commission of an offense, whether as principal or accessory. Thus in treason, there are no abettors or accessories, but all are held to be principals or accomplices. www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=abetter   (158 words)

Albany Personal Injury Attorneys - New York Hazardous Product Lawyers - The Law Office of Edward P. Ryan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) The term was also used when slavery was legal to describe the condition of a former slave who had bought or been given freedom from his or her master. A legal term referring to all wages or other benefits received as compensation for holding some office or employment. The legal act of returning property to the government upon the death of the owner, because there is nobody to inherit the property. www.edryan.com /dictionaryE.shtml   (2072 words)

[No title] A person who but for this section would be liable, whether as principal or as accessory, to be convicted of murder shall be liable instead to be convicted of manslaughter. US v Brawner (1972) ALI Rule A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law. Sanity is legal term, not used by clinical psychologists. darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mauro/psy420/Insanity.doc   (579 words)

IPod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The large accessories market that has built up around the iPod is sometimes described as the iPod ecosystem. A host of different companies produce accessories that are designed to work with the iPod. Accessories for the iPod have also been added to the skiing and snowboarding industry. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IPod   (8918 words)

Frequently Asked Questions / The Vortis / Cellular Phone Accessory / Hearing Aid Accessory / Vortis / Myers Johnson Inc. The Vortis is a unique antenna accessory that utilizes the science of interferometric cancellation to create an effective directional RF signal that improves your cellular phone’s performance while reducing the RF emissions directed at your head and hearing aid. The term “micro” is used because the Vortis needs to be distinguished between a large array and a small near field array were the elements are placed so close to each other that they actually couple with each other. It is a legal term with defined parameters and was "borrowed" from the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) which also uses the term in several of its Titles (e.g., Title III). www.thevortis.com /Pages/FAQ's.html   (7535 words)

Downers Grove Municipal Code, City Code, Village Legal Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) (1) Except as provided herein, residential accessory structures shall be located in the rear or side yards and on the same zoning lot as the principal structure or use served. (7) Residential accessory buildings shall be placed at a minimum of ten (10) feet from the side and rear walls of the principal structure to which it is necessary. Such terms and conditions may include, but are not limited to, requiring re-notice or rehearing of the petition and/or tolling any time limits for Village action as otherwise mandated herein. www.downers.us /citycode/code/ch28/article13.htm   (4863 words)

La Página del Idioma Español - The Spanish Language Home-Page Pacto is a side agreement; actually, it is a particular term or condition within a contract; which creates accessory obligations that will normally expire with the main contract; in other words, it co-exists with the contract. Because it happens to be a particular term or condition inserted in a purchase contract. This instrument is commonly a set of terms and conditions agreed to by an employee, as a supplement to his employment agreement, whereby the employee pledges to hold in strictest confidence and not to disclose the employer's proprietary information. www.elcastellano.org /bonds.html   (1654 words)

Legal Dictionary, legal glossary, legal terminology, legal words, legal abbreviations, legal jargon, legal forms, legal ... It’s a free online legal dictionary search engine for definitions of legal terminology and legal words, legal abbreviations, and legal jargon you may meet when reading legal acts, law books, documents, legal forms and other legal content. The use of legal process by illegal, malicious, or perverted means. Agreement by a defendant (or his/her attorney) in a legal action to accept a complaint or other petition (like divorce papers) without having the sheriff or process server show up at the door. www.legalhelpmate.com /legal-dictionary.aspx?page=2   (578 words)

Condominiums and Apartments - Smoking Long Illegal There are protective legal doctrines, e.g., the "right to fresh and pure air," nuisance, "balancing the equities," breach of warranty of habitability, breach of the covenant of quiet enjoyment, sanitary duty, negligence, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, trespass and constructive eviction. Your landlord or management are aiding and abetting, accessory to this illegal killing, of which (as the body count is at the "holocaust" level) you may well be a future casualty. And to specifically cite the legal term for the right being violated, the word "nuisance." In law, that word means more than in lay language, in law it means an illegal act, illegal under civil law. medicolegal.tripod.com /condoaptcases.htm   (7242 words)

Legal Terms by First Letter A - Legal Dictionary, legal glossary, legal terminology, legal words, legal abbreviations, ... Legal Terms by First Letter A - Legal Dictionary - legal glossary -legal terminology - legal words - legal abbreviations - legal jargon - legal forms - legal document Someone who assists in the commission of a crime and, unlike a mere accessory, is usually present or directly aids in the crime (like holding a gun on the bank guard while the vault is looted, or holding a victim of assault and battery). A statement between a creditor or the person to whom money is owed and a debtor (the person who owes) that a particular amount is owed to the seller as of a certain date. www.legalhelpmate.com /legal-dictionary-a.aspx?page=4   (421 words)

AR15.COM :: Information Not really an amnesty though, as the weapons were legal to have before the law was passed, at least under federal law. Such term shall not include a pistol or revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition." 26 USC sec. While the statute calls these devices "silencers" or "mufflers", the US NFA industry term is "sound suppressor", as the word silencer has been given a negative connotation, and because it is inaccurate, as these devices do not eliminate all sound from firing a gun. www.ar15.com /content/legal/nfaFAQ.html   (13557 words)

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