Legal Definition and Related Resources of Commandment
Meaning of Commandment
In Practice. An act of authority, as of a magistrate or judge, in committing a person to prison. Cowell. In Old Criminal Law, The act or offense of one who commands another to transgress tha law, or do anything contrary to law, as theft, murder, or the like. Braeton, fols. 138, 139; Termes de la Ley; St. Westminster I. c. 14. Particularly applied to the act of an accessory before the fact, in inciting, procuring, setting on, or stirring up another to do the fact or act. 2 Inst. 128.
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