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To be deserving of blame, to be worthy of being held responsible and liable for an act. For example: "Bill helped Bob to rob the bank and was found equally culpable of the crime by the jury." Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Blamable; censurable; involving the breach of a legal duty or the commission of a fault. The term is not necessarily equivalent to … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
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TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Additional; heaping up; increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v. Superior Court 10 Wend. (N. Y.) 285; Regina v. Eastern Archipelago Co., 18 Eng. Law & Eq. 183. Cumulative dividend. See STOCK. Cumulative offense. One which can be committed only … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A person who is indicted for a criminal offense, but not yet convicted. It is not, however, a technical term of the law; and in its vernacular usage it seems to imply only a light degree of censure or moral reprobation. Blackstone believes it an abbreviation of the old forms of arraignment, whereby, on the prisoner's pleading not guilty, the clerk would respond, "culpabilis, … [Read more...]