 | Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - 1805 - 396 sivua
...properly speaking are mere synonymous terms ; though in common •usage, the word crimes is made use of to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...consequence, are comprised under the gentle name of misdemeanours only. " In making the distinction bet-ween public "wrongs and private, between crimes... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 sivua
...synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word crimes is made use oj to denote such ojj'ehces as arc of a deeper and more atrocious dye ; while smaller...of misdemeanors only. " In making the distinction hetween public wrongs and private, hetween crimes and misdemeanors, and civil injuries, the same author... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 sivua
...misdemeanors, which properly speaking, are synonymous terms ; though in common usage, the word crime is made to denote such offences as are of a -deeper and more...omissions of less consequence are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanor only. 4 Bl. Com. 5. To enumerate the various acts which have been determined... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 sivua
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms ; though, in common usage, th« word crimes is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...smaller faults, and omissions of less consequence, are comprized under the gentler name of misdemeanours only. High crimes and misdemeanours denote offences... | |
 | 1817 - 240 sivua
...committed or omitted in violation of public law, either forbidding or commanding it. Crime is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions, of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name of ' misdemeanors only.' In all cases, the crime includes an injury : every public offence... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William John Broderip, Peregrine Bingham - 1820 - 644 sivua
...properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though, in common usage, the word ' crimes' is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the general names of misdemeanors only (a)." When I find Sir Matthnu Hale describing the jurisdiction of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1820 - 648 sivua
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms: though, in common usage, the word ' crimes' is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the general names of misdemeanors only (a)." When I find Sir Matthew Hale describing the jurisdiction of... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 240 sivua
...synonimous terms ; though, in common usage, the word crimes is made to denote sych ufI'eness as aie of a deeper and more atrocious dye ; while smaller...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors only." In the same book, p. 121 it is said " mis prisions, which are merely... | |
 | Octavius Pickering, William Howard Gardiner - 1821 - 238 sivua
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonitnous terms ; though, in common usage, the word crimes is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...atrocious dye ; while smaller faults, and omissions oí less consequence, :ue comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors only." In the same book,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 sivua
...which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though in common usage, the word " crimes" is made to denote such offences as are of a deeper and more...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name of "misdemeanors" only. The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors... | |
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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... 
