 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 páginas
...speaks of the " crime of our first father's fall." So Blackstone says — "A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it." And, again, that the discussion and admeasurement of the nature of crimes and punishments, " forms... | |
 | David Butler (defendant.) - 1871 - 430 páginas
...trial, page 126: "Chief Justice Shaw quotes from Blackstoue, us follows : 'A crime, or mi.-demeanor, 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... | |
 | California - 1872 - 698 páginas
..."offense," is far from uniform even among legal writers. "A crime, or misdemeanor," SHVS Blnckstoni', " is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." " Crimes and misdemeanors, properly speaking, are synonymous terms; though in common usage, the word... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1873 - 442 páginas
...conspiracies, assaults," £c. See 4 Comm. chap. 1, p. 5. " A crime or misdemeanor " says Blaclestone, " 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, David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 386 páginas
...of " Crime " in general, and state the distinction between "Public" and "Private" Wrongs. A Crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. In English law offences are technically divided into/eZowie* and misdemeanors. Felony (felonia, of... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1873 - 552 páginas
...the law implies. But the fiction is the same. (Austin, p. 945.) ' A Crime or misdeameanor (delict) is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it/1 (ie, in violation of a prohibitory law, such violation entailing punishment). An act or omission... | |
 | Archibald Brown - 1874 - 510 páginas
...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 public law either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition, howover, comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking,... | |
 | California - 1874 - 712 páginas
..."offense," is far from uniform even among legal writers. "A crime, or misdemeanor," says Blackstone, "is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." " Crimes and misdemeanors, properly -.peaking, are synonymous terms; though in common usage, the word... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1877 - 640 páginas
...rights of the community, and is therefore the proper prosecutor for every public offence. I. A crime 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 synonymous... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Samuel Townsend Douglass - 1878 - 598 páginas
...mode provided for their suppression by the general law of the state, and the •ays Blackstone, " is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of 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,... | |
| |
A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 
