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aiding, receiving, & c. an accessary in felony. 
An accessary in felony shall have judg- 
ment of life and member, as well as the 
principal, who did the felony : but not till 
the principal be first attainted, and con- 
victed, or outlawed thereon. Where the 
principal is pardoned without attainder, the 
accessary cannot be arraigned ; it being a 
maxim indaw, Ubi non est principalis, non 
potest esse accessorius. But if the princi- 
pal be pardonbd, or have his clergy after at- 
tainder, the accessary shall be arraigned, 
4, and o W. and M. cap. 4 ; and by stat. 1 
Anne, cap. 9, it is enacted, that where the 
principal is convicted of felony, or stands 
mute, or challenges above twenty of the 
jury, it shall be lawful to proceed against 
the accessary in the same manner as if the 
principal had been attainted ; and notwith- 
standing such principal shall be admitted to 
his clergy, pardoned, or delivered before 
attainder. In some cases also, if the prin 1 
cipal cannot be taken, then the accessary 
may be prosecuted for a misdemeanor, and 
punished by fine, imprisonment, &c. stat. 
ib. see stat. 5 Anne, cap. 31. In the lowest 
and highest offences there are no accessaries, 
but ail are principals : as in riots, routs, 
forcible entries, and other trespasses, which 
are the lowest offences. So also in the highest 
offence, which is, according to our law, high 
treason, there are no accessaries. Cok. 
Littlet. 71. 
ACCIDENT. See Logic. 
ACCIPITRES, or rapacious birds, in 
the Linnajan system of ornithology, the first 
order of birds; the- characters of which are, 
that the bill bends downwards, that the up- 
per mandible is dilated a little on both sides 
towards the point, or armed with a tooth- 
like process, and that the nostrils are wide ; 
the legs are short and strong : the feet are 
of the perching kind, having three toes for- 
wards and one backwards; the toes are 
warty under the joints, with claws hooked 
and sharp at the points. The body, head, 
and neck, are musculous, and the skin very 
tough. The birds of this order subsist by 
preying on other animals, and on dead car- 
casses, and they are unfit for food. They live 
in pairs, and are monogamous; and build 
their nests in lofty situations. The female 
is generally larger and stronger than the 
male, and usually lays four eggs at a time. 
This order corresponds to that of Ferae, and 
comprehends four genera, viz. Vultur, 
Falco, Strix, and Lanius, which see. 
ACCOMPANIMENT, in heraldry, de- 
notes any thing added to a shield by way 
ACE 
of ornament, as the belt, mantling, sup- 
porters, &c. 
Accompaniment is also used for several 
hearings about a principal one, as a saltier, 
bend, fess, &c. 
ACCOMPLICE, in law, a person who 
is privy to, or aiding in, the perpetration of 
some crime. See Accessary. 
ACCORD, in law, a verbal agreement 
between two or more, where any one is in- 
jured by a trespass, or other offence com- 
mitted, to make satisfaction to the injured 
party ; who, after the accord is performed, 
will be barred in law from bringing any 
new action against the aggressor for the 
same trespass. It is safest, however, in 
pleading, to allege satisfaction, and hot ac- 
cord alone ; because, in this last case, a pre- 
cise execution hi every part thereof must be 
alleged; whereas, in the former, the de- 
fendant needs only say, that he paid the 
plaintiff such a sum in full satisfaction of the* 
accord, which he received. 
ACCOUNTANT-g-encrtd, in the court of 
Chancery, an officer appointed by act of 
parliament to receive all monies lodged in 
court, and convey the same to the bank of 
England for better security. •The salary of 
this officer and his clerks is to be paid out 
of the interest made of par t of the money ; 
it not being allowable to take fees in this 
office. Counterfeiting the hand of the ac- 
countant-general is felony, without clergy, 
by 12 Geo. I. c. 32. 
ACCOUTREMENTS, in a military 
sense, signify the furniture of a soldier, such 
as puffs, belts, pouches, cartridge-boxes, &c, 
ACCROCHE', in heraldry, denotes' a 
thing’s being hooked into another. 
ACER, maple, in botany, a genus of the 
Monoecia order and Polygamia class of 
plants, and belonging to the natural order 
of Trihilata. There are 25 species. See 
Maple. 
ACETATES, in chemistry, a genus of 
salts formed by the acetic acid. They may 
be distinguished by the following properties: 
they are decomposed by heat ; the acid be- 
ing partly driven off, partly destroyed : — 
they are very soluble in water -when mixed 
with sulphuric acid, and distilled in a mo- 
derate heat, acetic acid is disengaged; — 
when they are dissolved in water, and ex- 
posed to the open air, their acid is gradually 
decomposed. 
ACETIC acid, in chemistry. This acid 
is employed in different states, which have 
been distinguished from each other by pecu- 
liar names. When first prepared, it is called 
