ART AND PART, a term used in Scots criminal law, in contradistinction to "actor," and denoting guilt of the crime by accession before or concomitant with the fact. For practical purposes the distinction between the guilt of an actor, and guilt art and part, in the perpetration of a crime, was abolished by the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887. Accession after the fact does not infer guilt of the crime.