 | Alexander Jamieson - 1829 - 654 str.
...the following definition from Blackstone's Commentaries, vol. iv. p. 6. "A crime, or misdemeanour, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanours ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms ; thongh,... | |
 | W. Jeffcott - 1830 - 82 str.
...briefly as possible a definition of them, according as they present themselves. A CRIME, or misdemesnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemesnors ; 16 which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms ;... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 str.
...conspiracies, assaults, &c. See 4 Comm. c. 1. p. 5. in n. A crime or misdemeanor, says Blackstone, ed to have no will of their own, are excluded from...set other individuals, whose wills may be suppose comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms, though... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 str.
...The means of prevention. VI. The method of punishment. ....... -Page I 2. A crime, or misdemesnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 43. Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1836 - 304 str.
...their decision. 26. JUDGMENT,—is the sentence of the law pronounced by the Court. 8 27. CRIME,—a crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of the public laws, either forbidding, or commanding it. 1 A crime is a vio-lation of the duty to society,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 str.
...deplorable consequences to which a wilful disobedience may expose us, is a matter of universal concern. A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though,... | |
 | Scotland. High Court of Justiciary, Archibald Campbell Swinton - 1838 - 688 str.
...Hume gives no definition of what a crime is. Blackstone (Book IV. chap. 1,) lays it down, that a crime is " an act committed, or *' omitted, in violation...public law either forbidding or " commanding it," and conformable to this is the definition of Culpable Homicide, (1. Alison, p. 1.) Blackstone's definition... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - 1840 - 764 str.
...AND THEIR PUNISHMENT. A CRIME, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in Definition of a violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms, though... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - 834 str.
...TREATISE, &c. BOOK I. Of Crimes in General ; and of CHAPTER I. (Erftnes fn A crime has been defined to be an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.(a) Our revised statutes have affixed a precise technical meaning to the terms " crime" and " offence,"... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1841 - 632 str.
...inquiry to the word crime, that being the most comprehensive term used. Blackstone defines a crime thus: "A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of the public law. either forbidding or commanding it." He goes on to say: "This general definition comprehends... | |
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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. 
