 | 1866 - 514 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... | |
 | John H. Colby - 1868 - 796 頁
...OF CRIMINAL EVIDENCE. OF INDICTABLE OFFENCES. BLACKSTONE says that a crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprises both crimes and misdemeanors, -which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms; though,... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1868 - 444 頁
...thereby committed a misdemeanor. Blackstone defines a misdemeanor thus : A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. Misdemeanor in office, and misbehavior in office, or official misconduct, mean the same thing. Mr.... | |
 | 1869 - 826 頁
...the English common law of crimes, Blackstone's definition, ' that a crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it,' becomes important. I stand upon this definition of the great writer upon English law аз the connecting... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1869 - 608 頁
...a crime or misdemeanor may, therefore, be defined the ' wilful' commission or omission of any acts in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. This definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which are synonymous terms, though in common usage... | |
 | David Butler (defendant.) - 1871 - 430 頁
...126: "Chief Justice Shaw quotes from Blackstoue, us follows : 'A crime, or mi.-demeanor, 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; though,... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 頁
...the " crime of our first father's fall." So Blackstone says — "A crime or misdemeanour is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it." And, again, that the discussion and admeasurement of the nature of crimes and punishments, " forms... | |
 | California - 1872 - 698 頁
...far from uniform even among legal writers. "A crime, or misdemeanor," SHVS Blnckstoni', " 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... | |
 | David Paul Brown - 1873 - 442 頁
...assaults," £c. See 4 Comm. chap. 1, p. 5. " A crime or misdemeanor " says Blaclestone, " 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: though... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - 1873 - 386 頁
...Crime " in general, and state the distinction between "Public" and "Private" Wrongs. A Crime is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. In English law offences are technically divided into/eZowie* and misdemeanors. Felony (felonia, of... | |
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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. 
