The constable's guide, a short compendium of the criminal law of England

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第 iii 頁 - 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 synonymous terms; though in common usage, the word "crimes...
第 19 頁 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
第 15 頁 - But, to come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry ; for that is as much closed as the nature of things will permit. So also to knock at a door, and, upon opening it, to rush in, with a felonious intent ; or, under pretence of taking lodgings, to fall upon the landlord, and rob him ; or, to procure a...
第 ix 頁 - Lastly, extortion is an abuse of public justice, which consists in any officer's unlawfully taking, by colour of his office, from any man, any money or thing of value, that is not due to him, or more than is due, or before it is due (w).
第 16 頁 - And it is the same, whether such intention he actually carried into execution, or only demonstrated by some attempt or overt act, of which the jury is to judge. And therefore such a breach and entry of a house as has been before described, by night...
第 18 頁 - ... the felonious and forcible taking from the person of another of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear...
第 xii 頁 - The least touching of another's person wilfully, or in anger, is a battery; for the law cannot draw the line between different degrees of violence, and therefore totally prohibits the first and loVest stage of it: every man's person being sacred, and no other having a right to meddle with it, in any the slightest manner...
第 x 頁 - AFFRAYS (from qffi-aier, to terrify,) are the fighting of two or more persons in some public place, to the terror of his majesty's subjects : for, if the fighting be in private, it is no qffi-ay but an assault b.
第 iii 頁 - ... 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 as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
第 xi 頁 - The punishment of common affrays is by fine and imprisonment; the measure of which must be regulated by the circumstances of the case; for, where there is any material aggravation, the punishment proportionably increases.

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