 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...nature of crimes, I. A CRIME, or mifdemefnor, is an aft committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes .and mifdememors ; which, properly fpeaking, arc mere fynonymous terms : though, in common ufage, the word... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 706 pages
...crime or mifdemeanor is an a<5t Whnt a or mifilcmeacommitted or omitted in violation of a pub- norlie law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanors, which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms; though, in a common ufage, the word... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Constitutional law - 1792 - 652 pages
...mifdemeanor is an aft what* trim* or mifdemeacommitted or omitted in violation of a pub- nor. lie hw, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanors, which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms ; though, in a common ufage, the... | |
 | 482 pages
...nature of crimes. I. A crime, or mifdemeanour, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanours; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms : though, in common ufage, the word... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 620 pages
...nature of crimes. I. A CRIME, or mifdemefnor, is an a& committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemefnors ; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms : though, in common uf.ige, the... | |
 | Alexander Addison, Thomas Lloyd, Bishop Backus - Impeachments - 1803 - 202 pages
...bafely degrades himfelf, A crime or mifdemeanor is an aft committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanors, which properly fpeaking are mere fynoniitious terms ; though, in common ufage, the word... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
..." A crime or misdemeanor, says Blackstone, ig an act committed or omitted in violation o/ a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which properly speaking arc mere synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word... | |
 | Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - Impeachments - 1805 - 396 pages
...' A Crime or misdemeanour^ says Blackstone, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanours, lohich properly speaking are mere synonymous terms ; though in common •usage, the... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...• - . MISDEMEANOR. 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 synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word crime... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...or misdemeanour, says iuuge Blackstone, is an act committed, or'om'itied, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanours; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms ; though, in common usage, th«... | |
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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. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though in... 
