| John H. Colby - 1868 - 796 lehte
...INDICTMENT. IV.— OF CRIMINAL EVIDENCE. OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES. BLACKSTONE says that a crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprises both crimes and misdemeanors, -which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms; though,... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 446 lehte
...and thereby committed a misdemeanor. Blackstdne defines a misdemeanor thus : A crinie or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. Misdemeanor in office, and misbehavior in office, or official misconduct, mean the same thing. Mr.... | |
| 1869 - 826 lehte
...principles of the English common law of crimes, Blackstone's definition, ' that a crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it,' becomes important. I stand upon this definition of the great writer upon English law аз the connecting... | |
| John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1869 - 608 lehte
...a crime or misdemeanor may, therefore, be defined the ' wilful' commission or omission of any acts in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. This definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which are synonymous terms, though in common usage... | |
| Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 lehte
...speaks of the " crime of our first father's fall." So Blackstone says — "A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it." And, again, that the discussion and admeasurement of the nature of crimes and punishments, " forms... | |
| California - 1872 - 698 lehte
..."offense," is far from uniform even among legal writers. "A crime, or misdemeanor," SHVS Blnckstoni', " is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." " Crimes and misdemeanors, properly speaking, are synonymous terms; though in common usage, the word... | |
| Henry Edward Wallace - 1875 - 676 lehte
...offences of a more atrocious dye, and the latter, smaller faults and offences. A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law. Black. Com., vol. 4, p. 5 ; Webster's Dictionary. Forgery, perjury, and many offences of lower grade,... | |
| William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 386 lehte
...nature of " Crime " in general, and state the distinction between "Public" and "Private" Wrongs. A Crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. In English law offences are technically divided into/eZowie* and misdemeanors. Felony (felonia, of... | |
| David Nasmith - 1873 - 552 lehte
...the law implies. But the fiction is the same. (Austin, p. 945.) ' A Crime or misdeameanor (delict) is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it/1 (ie, in violation of a prohibitory law, such violation entailing punishment). An act or omission... | |
| David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 366 lehte
...nature of "Crime" in general, and state the distinction between "Public" and "Private " Wrongs. A Crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either for bidding or commanding it. In English law offences are technically divided \niofelimice and misdemeanors.... | |
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