 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 514 lapas
...properly speaking arc mere synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word crimes is made use oj to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...consequence, are: comprised under the gentle name of misdemeanors only. " In making the distinction between public wrongs and private, between crimes and... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 lapas
...synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word crimes is made use oj to denote such ojj'ehces as arc of a deeper and more atrocious dye ; while smaller...consequence, are comprised under the gentle name of misdemeanors only. " In making the distinction hetween public wrongs and private, hetween crimes and... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 lapas
...misdemeanors, which properly speaking, are synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word crime is made to denote such offences as are of a -deeper and more...omissions of less consequence are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanor only. 4 Bl. Com. 5. To enumerate the various acts which have been determined... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 lapas
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms ; though, in common usage, th« word crimes is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...smaller faults, and omissions of less consequence, are comprized under the gentler name of misdemeanours only. High crimes and misdemeanours denote offences... | |
 | 1817 - 240 lapas
...committed or omitted in violation of public law, either forbidding or commanding it. Crime is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions, of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name of ' misdemeanors only.' In all cases, the crime includes an injury : every public offence... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1820 - 648 lapas
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms: though, in common usage, the word ' crimes' is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the general names of misdemeanors only (a)." When I find Sir Matthew Hale describing the jurisdiction of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William John Broderip, Peregrine Bingham - 1820 - 644 lapas
...properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though, in common usage, the word ' crimes' is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the general names of misdemeanors only (a)." When I find Sir Matthnu Hale describing the jurisdiction of... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 240 lapas
...synonimous terms ; though, in common usage, the word crimes is made to denote sych ufI'eness as aie of a deeper and more atrocious dye ; while smaller...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors only." In the same book, p. 121 it is said " mis prisions, which are merely... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 238 lapas
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonitnous terms ; though, in common usage, the word crimes is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...atrocious dye ; while smaller faults, and omissions oí less consequence, :ue comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors only." In the same book,... | |
 | 1823 - 880 lapas
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms ; though, in common usage, the word (rime is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name oímisdemeanourí only." MISE, in law books, is used in various senses : thus it sometimes... | |
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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. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though in... 
