Accessory After the Fact
Timothy Garton Ash, writing in The Guardian on 16 Nov 2002 ("Truth is Another Country"), added to my legal education by filling me in on "accessory after the fact," viz:In 16th- and 17th-century...
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so, any link with 'factotum' then - some one who does evil (or not) deeds for you?
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For "factotum," Online Etymology Definition has the date, 1566, from M.L. "fac totum" ["do everything']. I'm not sure there is a connection with the "evil deed" archaic meaning of "fact," except as to...
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I don't think there's any connection beyond their both deriving from Latin facere, to do. "Factotum" breaks down into fac do (imperative) +totum everything."Fact" was originally just a thing done...
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Simply means helping a criminal after the crime is committed,e.g.,hiding a gub for someone who just shot a victim.
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