 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 890 pages
...though, in common usage, the word ' crimes' is made use of to denote such offences as are of a deeper anj more atrocious dye; while smaller faults, and omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the genUr name of misdemeanors only. " In making the distinction between public wrongs and private, between... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 780 pages
...which, properly speaking, are more 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 names of "misdemeanours" only.1 The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1864 - 586 pages
...lexicography, and it is so in law. I read from Blackstone : "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 misdemeanors only.'J What, then, is judicial misbehavior or misdemeanor? That, sir,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...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 names of " misdemeanours" only.* The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Constitutional history - 1867 - 356 pages
...which, properly speaking, are mere 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 misdemeanors only." Misprisions are, in the acceptation of our law, generally understood... | |
 | John H. Colby - Criminal law - 1868 - 806 pages
...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 names of "misdemeanors" only.1 The knowledge of this branch of jurisprudence, which teaches... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...synonymous terms ; though in common usage the word crimes is made to denote such offences as are of deeper and more atrocious dye ; while smaller faults...omissions of less consequence, are comprised under the gentler name of misdemeanors only. ( Blackstone's Commentaries, book 4, page 5.) The distinction of... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 608 pages
...misdemeanors, which are synonymous terms, though in common usage the word ' crimes' is made to denote offences of a deeper and more atrocious dye, while smaller...omissions of less consequence are comprised under the gentler name of ' misdemeanors :' Bl. Com. lib. 4, c. 1. But the act done or omitted, in order to be... | |
 | Jurisprudence - 1872 - 522 pages
...properly speaking, are merely 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 misdemesnors only." * Mr. Sergeant Stephens in his Commentaries gives the following... | |
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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... 
