Legal Definition and Related Resources of Aid and comfort
Meaning of Aid and comfort
Help; support; assistance; counsel; encouragement. The constitution of. the United States (article 3, § 3) declares that adhering to the enemies of the United States, giving them aid and comfort, shall be treason. These words, as they are to be understood in the constitution, have not received a fuH judicial construction. They import, however, Tielp, support, assistance, countenance, encouragement. The word “aid,” which occurs in St. “Westminster I. c. 14, is explained by Lord Coke (2 Inst. 182) as comprehending all persons counseling, abetting, plotting, assenting, consenting, and encouraging to do the act (and he adds, what is not applicable to the crime of treason), who are not present when the act is done. See, also, 1 Burn. Just. 5, 6; 4 Bl. Comm. 37, 38.
What does Aid and comfort mean in American Law?
The definition of Aid and comfort in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
A phrase, the most important situs of which is the definition of treason in Article III, § 3 of the Constitution (for which see adhering). Giving “aid and comfort” has been held to require at least some affirmative overt act which would tend to help out an enemy of the U.S.
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