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Particeps criminis
Particeps criminis, an unwilling or forced bribe-giver, may not even be stigmatized as an accomplice in the strict sense of the term of particeps criminis, Maha Singh v. State (Delhi Administrator), AIR 1976 SC 449: (1976) 1 SCC 644....
particeps criminis
particeps criminis [Latin] : one who takes part in a crime : accomplice ...
Particeps criminis or fraudis
Particeps criminis or fraudis (a partner in crime, or fraud)....
Accessary, or Accessory
Accessary, or Accessory [particeps criminis quasi accedens ad culpam, Lat. As though assenting to the offence], he who is not a chief actor at a felony, nor present at its perpetration, but yet is in some way concerned therein, either before or after the fact committed. An accessory before the fact is one who being absent at the time of the commission of the felony, yet procures, counsels, or commands another to commit a crime. Absence is necessary to make him an accessory, for if he be present, he becomes a principal. An accessory after the fact is one who, knowing a felony to have been committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon; but a wife may lawfully receive, comfort and assist her husband, though knowing him to be a felon. In treason and misdemeanours there are no accessories, either before or after the offence, every person implicated being a principal [see (English) Accessories and Abettors Act, 1861, s. 8, and Du Cross v. Lambourne, (1907) 1 KB 40]. In mansla...
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