 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...EVIDENCE IN PROSECUTIONS FOR CRIMES AT COMMON LAW. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. § 1. A crime is defined to be an act, committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it1 In the common law, crimes are divided into three classes ; treasons, felonies, and misdemeanors.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 1010 pages
...particular remedy given." And Blackstone, in speaking of the nature of crimes, says: "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... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1856 - 756 pages
...signification. A misdemeanor or a crime, for in their just and proper acceptation they are synonjmous terms, M M ly K+H S 7Z 6 By this test let the conduct of the respondent be tried, and, by it, let him stand justified or condemned.... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1858 - 1012 pages
...called a criminal proceeding, in its own name. Blackstone defines " a crime or misdemeanor " to be, " an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." 2 But his definition fails in precision ; neither is ours as apt as sometimes we are able to give.... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...Concord, Countor, Fine. CRIM. CON. An abbreviation of Criminal conversation, (qv) CRIME. [Lat. crimen.] An act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 4 Bl. Com. 5. — A breach or violation of some public right or duty due to a whole community, considered... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 780 pages
...of arrogance, 1 proceed now to consider (in the first place) the general nature of ci ¿/пел. I. A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted,...of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanours, which, properly speaking, are more... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...legal punishment in consequence of 1101 an action instituted by a private person. Criminal Law, — A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public laweither forbidding or commanding it. Crime and misdemeanour are, strictly speaking, synonymous terms,... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1865 - 652 pages
...Code Cr. Pro., 2, note), the following may be mentioned : "A crime, or misdemeanor," says Blackstone, "is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." " Crimes and misdemeanors, properly speaking, are synonymous terms; though in common usage, the word... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...rights of the community, and is therefore the proper prosecutor for every public offence. I. A crime 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... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 pages
...criminal of a fraudulent or malicious intention." Mr. Justice Blackstone defines a crime thus,—" A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted...a public law either forbidding or commanding it." The definition of a " crime " given by the Revised Statutes of New York is " any offence for which... | |
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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. 
