In practice . An authoritative order of a judge or magisterial officer. In criminal law . The act or offense of one who commands another to transgress the law, or do anything contrary to law , as theft, murder, or the like. Particularly applied to the act of an accessary before the fact, in inciting, procuring, setting on, or stirring up another to do the fact or act. 2 Inst. 182.
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