 | Indiana. Appellate Court - 1894 - 814 lehte
...in which the offense was committed, and would have fallen before a motion to quash. A public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law. "The act done or omitted to be done is the vital element of a crime. Time, place, and attendant circumstances... | |
 | Massachusetts. Civil Service Commission - 1895 - 40 lehte
...such duties; but you will not be expected to repeat the actual words used. CRIMES. Crime. — A crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. Adultery. — Unlawful sexual intercourse between a married person and one of the opposite sex, whether... | |
 | 1895 - 622 lehte
...we may well recall the definition of the last element, viz., crime. Mr. Blackstone says : "A crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it ; a breach or violation of some public right or duty due to the whole community, considered as a community... | |
 | John Gardner Hawley, Malcolm McGregor - 1896 - 350 lehte
...public at large, and punishes through a judicial proceeding in its own name." I Bish. Cr. Law, Sec. 32. "An act committed or omitted In violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding It." 4 Blk. Com., 5. "An act of disobedience to a law, forbidden under pain of punishment." Harris, 1. rea,"... | |
 | 1901 - 908 lehte
...CRIME AND ITS THERAPEUTICS, By LOUIS J. ROSENBURG, LLB and NE ARONSTAM, MD Pll. G., DETROIT. Crime is " an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law forbidding or commanding it." This is the definition given by lawwriters and judges. Crime, then, is... | |
 | Hascal Russel Brill - 1922 - 1090 lehte
...and made punishable by the state in a judicial proceeding in its own name.1 Blackstone defines it as "An act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or crmmanding it,"2 and there are numerous 1 People v. Hanrahan, 75 Mich. 611, name." 1 Bish. New Crim.... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1924 - 950 lehte
...{2] It is a principle of criminal law that an offense which may be the subject of criminal procedure is an act committed, or omitted, "in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it." (8 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 2d ed., 279 ; Umted States v. Eaton, M4 US 677, 687 [36 L. Ed. 591, 12... | |
 | William Ephraim Mikell - 1925 - 886 lehte
...department. It is a principle of criminal law that an offense which may be the subject of criminal procedure is an act committed or omitted "in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." 4 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 642; 4 Bl. Comm. S. It would be a very dangerous principle to hold that a... | |
 | Frank Johnston - 1925 - 376 lehte
...legislation involves offenses known as crimes and misdemeanors. 65 Crimes or misdemeanors are acts committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding the act (Blackstone—Commentaries Book IV p. 5-). Crimes and misdemeanors are breaches of public rights... | |
 | William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall - 1927 - 888 lehte
...given in the text-books and in the cases, but few of them are satisfactory. Blackstone's definition — "An act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it" 8— has frequently been quoted with approval, 8 but it is inaccurate. In the first place, it is not... | |
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Definition of crimes and misdemeanors.—A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 
