Definition of Abettor

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Abettator
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Abettor.

  • Abettator
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In Lat. In old English law. An abettor. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 65, § 7. See Abettor. The distinction between abettors and accessaries is the presence or absence at the commission of the crime. Cowell; Fleta, lib. 1, c. 34. Presence and participation are necessary to constitute a person an abettor. Green v. State, 13 Mo. 382; State v. Teahan, 50 Conn. 92; Connaughty v. State, 1 Wis. 159, 60 Am. Dec. 370.

  • Abettor
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    One who abets.

  • Abettor
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In criminal law. An instigator or setter on; one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed;' one who commands, advises, instigates, of encourages another to commit a crime; a person who, being present or in the neighborhood, incites another to commit a crime, and thus becomes a principal.