In flagrante delicto (), is used to refer to citizen's arrest, and is listed under Section 213 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as such. Aside from the legal meaning, the Latin term is often used colloquially as a dysphemism for someone's being caught in the midst of sexual activity. In flagrante delicto In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence"), or simply in flagrante, a legal term, indicates that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare ). The colloquial "caught " or "caught rapid" are English equivalents. The phrase combines the present active participle "flagrāns" (flaming or
Accessory (legal term) and "accessory-after-the-fact" were used in England and the United States but are now more common in historical than in current usage. The spelling accessary is occasionally used, but only in this legal sense. The English legal authority William Blackstone, in his "Commentaries", defined an accessory as: He goes on to define an "accessory-before-the-fact" in these words: and an "accessory-after-the-fact" as follows: The "Criminal Code" has several sections which deal with accessory to offences: For these purposes, "abetting" means "to encourage or set on" and an "abettor" is "an instigator or setter on, one who promotes or procures a crime to