 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...Definition of Crime. I. A crime or misdemeanour 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, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms; though, in common usage, (the word... | |
 | Frederick Stroud - Law - 1903 - 838 pages
...OFFICER. CRIME. — "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 Misdemesnurs which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms; though, in common usage, the word... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1905 - 704 pages
...word "crimes:" "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... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 448 pages
...Blackstone's definition : 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... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 460 pages
...Blackstone's definition: 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... | |
 | Elmer Diedrich Graper - Police - 1921 - 388 pages
...Blackstone says : " 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... | |
 | Elmer Diedrich Graper - Police - 1921 - 386 pages
...Blackstone says : " 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... | |
 | Judges - 1970 - 342 pages
...Commentaries, has been referred to for a definition of a misdemeanor. Let us try the conduct Judge Chase by his text. "A crime or misdemeanor (says Judge Blackstone)...is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law cither forbidding or commanding it." "This general definition comprehends both crimes and... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 538 pages
...terms as follows : I. 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... | |
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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... 
