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Accomplice

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

accomplice


[alteration (from incorrect division of a complice) of complice, from Middle French, associate, from Late Latin complic- complex partner, confederate]
: one who intentionally and voluntarily participates with another in a crime by encouraging or assisting in the commission of the crime or by failing to prevent it though under a duty to do so [the of the burglar] [an in a robbery]




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