 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 σελίδες
...Punimments, 5. The Means of PREVENTION. 6. The Method of PUNISHMENT. 2. A CRIME, or MISDEMESNOR, is an Aft committed, or omitted, in Violation of a public Law, either forbidding or commanding it. 3Crimes are diftinguifhed from civil Injuries, in that they are a Breach and Violation of the PUBLIC... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 424 σελίδες
...following definition from Biackftone's Commentaries, vol. iv. j. " A crime, or mifdemeanour, is an aft committed' or omitted, in violation of a public law,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comptehends both crimes and mifclcmcanours ; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms ;... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 σελίδες
...of prevention. 6. The method of putiijhment. (2.) A (rime, or mifdemeanor, is an aft committed, •r omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. (j.) Crimes are diltinguifhed from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 1002 σελίδες
...for a violation of law constitute an element or ingredient of the offense? "A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." 4 Blk. Comm., 5. Substantially this form of definition of a public offense has been adopted by all... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 σελίδες
...significations — A misdemeanor or a crime, fornuheir just and proper acceptation they are synonimous terms, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. By this test, let the conduct of the respondent be tried, and, by it, let him stand justified or condemned.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 σελίδες
...false gods (Hooker'). t. A rile A crime, or гтч1<тлеппоиг, says jnojte Blackstone, is an art committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition MISCREA'TED. а. (ив and create.) Formed unnaturally or illir'tima'.ely; made as by a blunder of... | |
 | Thomas Potts - 1815 - 836 σελίδες
...ensue«. 4 ill,« 1. 188. Sec Homicide. MISDEMEANOUR, a crine or misdemeanour, is an act com* milted or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. MISE, is a customary gift or prêtent which the people of Wales, give to every new king or prince of... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1817 - 622 σελίδες
...prosecution, and the answer is, in the language of all the elementary writers upon the law, that a crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; the act, under consideration, is a public law, the violation of it then, is a crime; a prosecution... | |
 | 1821 - 328 σελίδες
...respective punishments ; 4. the means of prevention ; 5. the method of punishment. A crime, or misdcmcsnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. in. Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 238 σελίδες
...misdemeanors, (according to their legal acceptation) are merely synonymous ; and that they each ioiport, " an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding o'r commanding it." If then it be inquired, what is the precise description of those crimes or misdemeanors of the public... | |
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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. 
