 A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.  Elementary Law - 238. lappuseautors: William Callyhan Robinson - 1882 - 379 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 lapas
...infringement of his right. A reparation is that, which compensates for the loss sustained by an injury. A crime is an injury, so atrocious in its nature,...so dangerous in its example, that, besides the loss which it occasions to the individual who suffers by it, it affects, in its immediate operation or in... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 lapas
...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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