| Great Britain. Courts - 1873 - 550 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 misde meanors, which are synonymous terms, though in common... | |
| Archibald Brown - 1874 - 510 lehte
...that is, an infant under the age of twenty-one years. See title INFANCY. MISDEMEANOR. A misdemeanor is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition, howover, comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms,... | |
| California - 1874 - 712 lehte
..."misdemeanor," and "offense," is far from uniform even among legal writers. "A crime, or misdemeanor," says Blackstone, "is an act committed or omitted in...a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." " Crimes and misdemeanors, properly -.peaking, are synonymous terms; though in common usage, the word... | |
| Henry John Stephen - 1874 - 724 lehte
...c. 116. (d) The definition of Blackstone (vol. iv. p. 5), is as follows : " A " crime or misdemeanor is an act " committed or omitted, in violation " of a public law cither forbidding " or commanding it" But this scarcely points out the difference between a crime and... | |
| Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 lehte
...than the civil. I proceed now to consider (in the first place) the general nature of crime. I. A crime is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition, which will in future chapters be rendered more precise, comprehends both I. Nature of . r • •••... | |
| William Blackstone - 1876 - 658 lehte
...proceed now to consider (in the lirst place) the general nature of crimes. I. A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, cither forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors;... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Samuel Townsend Douglass - 1878 - 598 lehte
...imprisonment ; this is the mode provided for their suppression by the general law of the state, and the •ays Blackstone, " is an act committed, or omitted, in...a public law, either forbidding or commanding it:" 4B1. Com., 5. It will be perceived that this definition is applicable both to crimes and misdemeanors,... | |
| Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1879 - 308 lehte
...(4) the means of prevention ; (5) the method of punishment. What is a crime ? A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. How are crimes distinguished from civil injuries ? In that they are a breach and violation of the public... | |
| Archibald Brown - 1880 - 648 lehte
...and there are deputy masters and other officers (s. 14). ¿fee title Pyx. MISDEMEANOR. A misdemeanor is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a...law either forbidding or commanding it. This general définition, however, Comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are more... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1880 - 362 lehte
...forbidding or commanding it.1 This definition, however, though adequate 1 " A crime or misdemeanor (delict) is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." Stephen's Com. iv. 89, note, adopted in Nasmith's Institutes, 63. A crime is " an act of disobedience... | |
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