 | William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...Libels, Conspiracies, Assaults, (Sc. see 4 Comm. c. 1 p. 5 ' ' A Crime or misdemeanour^ 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 misdemeanours, lohich properly speaking are mere... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 páginas
...points decided, as to the proceedings in erecting mills. • - . MISDEMEANOR. 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 synonymous... | |
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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. 
