 | 482 trang
...we now to conlider (in the firft place) the general 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;... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 1002 trang
...for a violation of law constitute an element or ingredient of the offense? "A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it." 4 Blk. Comm., 5. Substantially this form of definition of a public... | |
 | Robert Johnson, John Swift Emerson - 1805 - 250 trang
...circumftances the fources of municipal obligation. A municipal offence may, therefore, be defined to be " an act committed or omitted in violation of a public. " law forbidding or commanding. it, by a perfon bound. " to obey that law." <• , ' .'. Authority, I mean rightful authority, and obedience,... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 trang
...significations — A misdemeanor or a crime, fornuheir just and proper acceptation they are synonimous terms, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. By this test, let the conduct of the respondent be tried, and,... | |
 | Samuel Chase, Charles Evans - 1805 - 396 trang
...fignifications; a rnif<kmeanor, or a crime, for in their juft proper acceptation they are fynonimous tferms, is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. By this ten, let the conduct of the refpondent , be tried, and... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 trang
...points decided, as to the proceedings in erecting mills. • - . 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,... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1817 - 622 trang
...the prosecution, and the answer is, in the language of all the elementary writers upon the law, that a crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it; the act, under consideration, is a public law, the violation of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1820 - 648 trang
...CoNANt. the very doctrine which I now state will be found. His words are, " 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,... | |
 | 1821 - 328 trang
...respective punishments ; 4. the means of prevention ; 5. the method of punishment. A crime, or misdcmcsnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. in. Crimes are distinguished from civil injuries, in that they... | |
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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. 
