 So that, upon the whole, the only adequate definition of felony seems to be that which is before laid down, viz., an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 1971855Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 páginas
...designate the offences involving other forfeitures. Thus Blackstone has defined it to be " an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands...be superadded, according to the degree of guilt," 4 BL Com. 95; and this definition is approved by Jacob as being, upon the whole, " the only adequate... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 668 páginas
...the lord. The only adequate definition of felony seems to be, an offence which formerly occasioned a total forfeiture of either lands or goods, or both,...common law; and to which capital or other punishment might besuperaddedaccordingtothedegreeof guilt. Where the punishment was less than capital, the offender... | |
 | Rollin Augustus Ives - 1879 - 514 páginas
...treason.1 Felonies. A felony originally was an offense which occasioned a total forfeiture of either land or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment might be added according to the degree of guilt.2 Forfeiture for crime having been generally abolished... | |
 | 1879 - 632 páginas
...seems to have been a puzzle to law writers. According to Sir WM. BLACKSTONE, it now imports an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands or goods, or both, at common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be superadded according to the degree of guilt.... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris, Frederic Philip Tomlinson - 1881 - 678 páginas
...to offences which involved forfeiture of goods. Blackstone thus defines a felony to be " an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands...may be superadded according to the degree of guilt " (a). Capital punishment, associated in the popular mind with felony, was an usual, though not a necessary,... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - 1882 - 642 páginas
...are divided into two classes, namely, felonies and misdemeanors. (A) Felony is denned as an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands...may be superadded, according to the degree of guilt, (i) All crimes which are made felonies by the express woids of a statute, or to which capital punishment... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - 1882 - 638 páginas
...are divided into two classes, namely, felonies and misdemeanors, (ft) Felony is defined as an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands...law, and to which capital or other punishment may l>e superadded, according to the degree of guilt, (i) All crimes which are made felonies by the express... | |
 | Samuel Prentice - 1882 - 402 páginas
...Of treason we do not here treat. A felony was defined to be " an offence which occasions Definition a total forfeiture of either lands or goods or both, at the of i'olony. common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be superadded according to the... | |
 | 1883 - 842 páginas
...only adequate definition of felony seems to be, that which is before laid down — viz., an offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands...law, and to which capital or other punishment may he superadded, according to the degree of guilt.' — Stephen'» Com., vol. iv. p. 81. From this statement... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 904 páginas
...Com. 95) is, in accordance with this principle : " An offence which occasions a total forfeiture of lands or goods, or both, at the common law, and to which capital or other punishment may be snperadded, according to the degree of guilt." But we understand Blackstono to mean, generally, by... | |
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