 ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered...  Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen - Page 486by Francis Plowden - 1792 - 620 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jeannine Marie DeLombard - History - 2009 - 344 pages
...dictionary, addressing "the distinction between a crime and a civil injury," explained that "the former is a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as such, in its social aggregate capacity; whereas the latter is merely an infringement... | |
 | Percy Henry Winfield - Damages - 1931 - 1108 pages
...belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals: public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanours, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties, due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social aggregate capacity. And it is clear from a later sentence that... | |
 | Law - 1984 - 864 pages
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 | Comparative law - 1955 - 1322 pages
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 | Eugene Cotran, Neville N. Rubin - Law - 1970 - 462 pages
...Thus, to take two important examples of the classical English concepts, Blackstone defines crime as 'a violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community';23 but Kenny, thinking this inadequate and adapting Austin's definition,... | |
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