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" Definition of crimes and misdemeanors.—A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. "
Report of the Trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase, One of the Associate Justices ... - Page 162
by Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - 1805 - 384 pages
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An Analysis of the Laws of England

William Blackstone - Law - 1771 - 274 pages
...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...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 12, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 424 pages
...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,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comptehends both crimes and mifclcmcanours ; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms ;...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 9, Part 2

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 432 pages
...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...
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 6; Volume 154

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...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...
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Trial of Samuel Chase: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ..., Volume 2

Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...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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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 8

John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...false gods (Hooker'). t. A rile A crime, or гтч1<тлеппоиг, says jnojte Blackstone, is an art committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition MISCREA'TED. а. (ив and create.) Formed unnaturally or illir'tima'.ely; made as by a blunder of...
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A Compendious Law Dictionary: Containing Both an Explanation of the Terms ...

Thomas Potts - Law - 1815 - 836 pages
...ensue«. 4 ill,« 1. 188. Sec Homicide. MISDEMEANOUR, a crine or misdemeanour, is an act com* milted or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. MISE, is a customary gift or prêtent which the people of Wales, give to every new king or prince of...
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The American Law Journal, Volume 6

John Elihu Hall - Law - 1817 - 622 pages
...prosecution, and the answer is, in the language of all the elementary writers upon the law, that a crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; the act, under consideration, is a public law, the violation of it then, is a crime; a prosecution...
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The British Prose Writers: Sheldon's table talk. Sir W. Blackstone's ...

British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...respective punishments ; 4. the means of prevention ; 5. the method of punishment. A crime, or misdcmcsnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. in. Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public...
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Report of the Trial by Impeachment of James Prescott, Judge of the Probate ...

Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - Trials (Impeachment) - 1821 - 238 pages
...misdemeanors, (according to their legal acceptation) are merely synonymous ; and that they each ioiport, " an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding o'r commanding it." If then it be inquired, what is the precise description of those crimes or misdemeanors of the public...
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