 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 pages
...to confider (in the firft place) the general nature of crimes, I. A CRIME, or mifdemefnor, is an aft committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes .and mifdememors ; which, properly fpeaking, arc mere... | |
 | 482 pages
...we now to conlider (in the firft place) the general nature of crimes. I. A crime, or mifdemeanour, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanours; which, properly fpeaking, are mere... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 424 pages
...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, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comptehends both crimes and mifclcmcanours ; which, properly fpeaking, are... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...to confider (in the firft place) the general nature of crimes. I. A CRIME, or mifdemefnor, is an a& committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemefnors ; which, properly fpeaking, are mere... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 1002 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Addison, Thomas Lloyd, Bishop Backus - 1803 - 202 pages
...according to the fame capacity to which he fo bafely degrades himfelf, A crime or mifdemeanor is an aft committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanors, which properly fpeaking are mere... | |
 | Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - 1805 - 396 pages
...fignifications; a rnif<kmeanor, or a crime, for in their juft proper acceptation they are fynonimous tferms, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. By this ten, let the conduct of the refpondent , be tried, and by it, let him Hand juftifitd or condemned.... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
