 | David Nasmith - Constitutional history - 1873 - 552 pages
...the law implies. But the fiction is the same. (Austin, p. 945.) ' A Crime or misdeameanor (delict) is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it/1 (ie, in violation of a prohibitory law, such violation entailing punishment). An act or omission... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 366 pages
...nature of "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 for bidding or commanding it. In English law offences are technically divided \niofelimice and misdemeanors.... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 550 pages
...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 misde meanors, which are synonymous terms, though in common... | |
 | Archibald Brown - Law - 1874 - 510 pages
...principally ; that is, an infant under the age of twenty-one years. See title INFANCY. MISDEMEANOR. A misdemeanor is an act committed, or omitted, in violation...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition, howover, comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms,... | |
 | American Law Institute - Criminal procedure - 1928 - 524 pages
...as to the meaning of "public offense" than "crime"; hence the former is adopted. "A public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law." Ford v. State, 7 Ind. App. 567. "A public offense is an act or omission forbidden by law." Alabama—Code,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1930 - 98 pages
...commanding it." (Bouvier's Law Dictionary, revised by Rawle, 1897.) " A 'crime' has been denned to be 'an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it'; but it is more accurately defined as a wrong directly or indirectly affecting the public, to which... | |
 | Crime - 1917 - 986 pages
...crime and criminals depends largely upon the point of view. In the legal sense of the term a crime is "An act committed or omitted in violation of a public law forbidding or commanding it." Another definition according to the same authority (Bouvier's Law Dictionary),... | |
 | United States - 1940 - 812 pages
...as when he commits a violation of duty, he is guilty of crime or misdemeanor : for, says Blackstone. 'Crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted...a public law either forbidding or commanding it.' " "To confine the impeachable offenses to those which are made crimes or misdemeanors by statute, or... | |
 | Law - 1924 - 490 pages
...United States. K For the term "offense" is synonymous26 with "crime" which is defined by Blackstone as "An act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." Tl This definition does not imply that the prohibition must be embodied in any particular form of law.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 972 pages
...recurrence to the great basis of American jurisprudence." Section 799. Mr. Justice Blackstone says: "A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted,...a public law either forbidding or commanding it." 4 Bl. Comm. 5. "In the English law 'misdemeanor' is generally used in contradistinction to 'felony;'... | |
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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. 
