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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. "
A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous ... - Page 684
by Alexander Jamieson - 1829
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An Analysis of the Laws of England

William Blackstone - 1771 - 274 pages
...Punimments, 5. The Means of PREVENTION. 6. The Method of PUNISHMENT. 2. A CRIME, or MISDEMESNOR, is an Aft committed, or omitted, in Violation of a public Law, either forbidding or commanding it. 3Crimes are diftinguifhed from civil Injuries, in that they are a Breach and Violation of the PUBLIC...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 4

William Blackstone - 1791 - 528 pages
...to confider (in the firft place) the general nature of crimes, I. A CRIME, or mifdemefnor, is an aft committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law,...This general definition comprehends both crimes .and mifdememors ; which, properly fpeaking, arc mere fynonymous terms : though, in common ufage, the word...
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Jura Anglorum: The Rights of Englishmen, Page 732

Francis Plowden - 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...
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Jura Anglorum

Francis Plowden - 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...
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The Britannic magazine; or entertaining repository of heroic ..., Volume 1

482 pages
...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...This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanours; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms : though, in common ufage, the word...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 12, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 424 pages
...following definition from Biackftone's Commentaries, vol. iv. j. " A crime, or mifdemeanour, is an aft committed' or omitted, in violation of a public law,...forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comptehends both crimes and mifclcmcanours ; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms ;...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 9, Part 2

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 pages
...of prevention. 6. The method of putiijhment. (2.) A (rime, or mifdemeanor, is an aft committed, •r omitted, in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it. (j.) Crimes are diltinguifhed from civil injuries, in that they are a breach and violation of the public...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4

William Blackstone - 1800 - 620 pages
...to confider (in the firft place) the general nature of crimes. I. A CRIME, or mifdemefnor, is an a& committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law,...This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemefnors ; which, properly fpeaking, are mere fynonymous terms : though, in common uf.ige, the...
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The Trial of Alexander Addison, Esq: President of the Courts of Common Pleas ...

Alexander Addison, Thomas Lloyd, Bishop Backus - 1803 - 202 pages
...according to the fame capacity to which he fo bafely degrades himfelf, A crime or mifdemeanor is an aft committed or omitted in violation of a public law,...This general definition comprehends both crimes and mifdemeanors, which properly fpeaking are mere fynoniitious terms ; though, in common ufage, the word...
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 6; Volume 154

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 1002 pages
...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 offense has been adopted by all...
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