 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 páginas
...conspiracies, assaults, &c. See 4 Comm. c. 1. p. 5. in n. A crime or misdemeanor, says Blackstone, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 páginas
...The means of prevention. VI. The method of punishment. ....... -Page I 2. A crime, or misdemesnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 43. Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 páginas
...a wilful disobedience may expose us, is a matter of universal concern. A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere... | |
 | Scotland. High Court of Justiciary, Archibald Campbell Swinton - 1838 - 688 páginas
...gives no definition of what a crime is. Blackstone (Book IV. chap. 1,) lays it down, that a crime is " an act committed, or *' omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or " commanding it," and conformable to this is the definition of Culpable Homicide, (1. Alison, p. 1.) Blackstone's definition... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - 834 páginas
...TREATISE, &c. BOOK I. Of Crimes in General ; and of CHAPTER I. (Erftnes fn A crime has been defined to be an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.(a) Our revised statutes have affixed a precise technical meaning to the terms " crime" and " offence,"... | |
 | 1842 - 752 páginas
...justice." (Book iv. chap, !.'.; And in chap. i. of the same book he says, " a crime or misdemesEor, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." They, therefore, who refuse to repair their parish church are violators of the law, and obnoxious to... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 páginas
...is not considered as a breach of a general warranty of soundness. Holt's Cas. 630. CRIME. A crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This word in its most general signification comprehends all offences, but in its limited sense it is... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 1174 páginas
...individuals, or the public. Mr. Justice Blackstone defines a crime thus : "A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it :"* butas Mr. Justice Coleridge has observed in a note to his edition of the Commentaries, it is not... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - 1845 - 756 páginas
...misdemeanor, what is not a misdemeanor, either officially or otherwise. In general, a misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. (4 Bl. Com. 5.) 1. The matter charged in this indictment is not forbidden or enjoined by the bank act.... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1846 - 628 páginas
...not do so without the necessity of indictment or presentment. A crime or misdemeanor is denned to be "an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which properly speaking are mere... | |
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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. 
