 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - 510 σελίδες
...supposed offences, without having an opportunity of making his defence.* Thirdly: That a crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.f Fourthly: That a prosecution is, in its most precise signification, an inquiry or mode of ascertaining,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1850 - 514 σελίδες
...supposed offences, without having an opportunity of making his defence.* Thirdly: That a crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.f Fourthly: That a prosecution is, in its most precise signification, an inquiry or mode of ascertaining,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 928 σελίδες
...conspiracies, assault!)," &c. See 4 Comm. c. I, p. 5, " A crime or misdemeanor, says Blackstone, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law,...This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms, though, in common usage, the word... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 886 σελίδες
...or misdemeanor (says Judge Blackstone) is an ' act committed or omitted, in violation of a pub' lie law either forbidding or commanding it." " This general definition comprehends both crimes ' and misdemeanors, which properly speaking are : mere synonymous terms." There is a public law that prescribes... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 890 σελίδες
...or misdemeanor (says Judge Blackstone) is an ' act committed or omitted, in violation of a pub' lie law either forbidding or commanding it.'' " This general definition comprehends both crimes 1 and misdemeanors, which properly speaking are 1 mere synonymous terms." There is a public law that... | |
 | 1853 - 830 σελίδες
...for crimes and misdemeanors. " A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted, in violation of public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which properly speaking are mere synonymous terms." — 4<A of Black. Com. Now the words,... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1853 - 636 σελίδες
...IN PROSECUTIONS FOR CRIMES AT COMMON LAW. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. § 1. A crime is defined to be an act, committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it1 In the common law, crimes are divided into three classes ; treasons, felonies, and misdemeanors.... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 756 σελίδες
...misdemeanor or a crime, for in their just and proper acceptation they are synonjmous 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.... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 σελίδες
...criminal proceeding, in its own name. Blackstone defines " a crime or misdemeanor " to be, " an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." 2 But his definition fails in precision ; neither is ours as apt as sometimes we are able to give.... | |
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A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 
