This phrase is used to indicate the state of a person who is required to do a thing, and is at the same time the person to whom it is done; as, when a man is indebted to another, and he appoints him his executor, the latter is required to pay the debt in his capacity of executor, and entitled to receive it in his own right, he is then agent and patient. Termes de la ley. … [Read more...]

In criminal law. Deliberate; planned; premeditated; prepense. State v. Peo, 9 Houst (Del.) 488, 33 Bl. Law Diot.(2d Ed.)4 Atl. 257; Edwards v. State, 25 Ark. 444; People v. Ah Choy, 1 Idaho, 317; State v. Fiske, 63 Conn. 388, 28 Atl. 572. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition crim. law. Premeditated, prepense; the length of time during which the accused has entertained … [Read more...]

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Acting and consenting parties are liable to the same punishment. A person aiding and abetting the actual commission of a crime, either at the scene of its commission or elsewhere, is equally liable with the perpetrator, the former being a principal in the second degree, and the latter in the first degree. If A., with intent to murder, inflicts on B an injury dangerous to life, … [Read more...]

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