 | Simon Greenleaf - 1853 - 636 頁
...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.... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 756 頁
...misdemeanor or a crime, for in their just and proper acceptation they are synonjmous 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.... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1858 - 1012 頁
...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 - 1859 - 738 頁
...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 - 1860 - 778 頁
...V. The means of prevention. VI. The method of punishment 1 '2. A crime, or misdemeanour, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it 4 3. Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in ¡hat they are a breach and violation of the... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code, David Dudley Field - 1864 - 372 頁
...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 - 1865 - 642 頁
...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,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms. But... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 頁
...punishments. V. The means of prevention. VI. The method of punishment 1 ". A crime, or misdemeanour, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it 4 f Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 頁
...malicious intention." Mr. Justice Blackstone defines a crime thus,—" A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted in violation of 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. 
