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/æksˈɛsəri bɪfˈɔr ðə fækt/ Listen

Accessory before the fact

noun

A person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration.

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"Accessory before the fact" Quotes from Famous Books

... don't trap me like that," he said. "If I admitted what I know, that would make me an accessory before the fact. Nope, I'm keeping quiet about this." He leered. ...

— Smugglers' Reef • John Blaine

... thought, by its limitations on the one hand, and its suggestions on the other, is so apparent to any one who has made even a slight study of comparative literature, that we have sometimes thought the German tongue at least an accessory before the fact, if nothing more, in the offences of German literature. The language has such a fatal genius for going stern-foremost, for yawing, and for not minding the helm without some ten minutes' notice in advance, that he must be a great sailor indeed who can safely make it the vehicle ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

... know a Bulcester jury as it was before the epidemic,' said Merton. 'And I might have been an accessory before the fact, and, anyhow, we should all have got into ...

— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang