 | 1925 - 1628 pages
...process. 1 Tidd, Pr. 401. 4 Bli Com. 231, calls the offense 'a criminal charge.' 'A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.' 4 Bl. Com. 5. The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil... | |
 | 1924 - 1654 pages
...other an infraction of the municipal law. A 'crime,' as defined by Blackstone (4 Bl. Com. 5), being an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. Within the contemplation of the constitutional inhibition against dual jeopardy for the same offense,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1628 pages
...process. 1 Tidd, Pr. 401. 4 Bl. Com. 231, calls the offense 'a criminal charge.' 'A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.' 4 Bl. Com. 5. The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1646 pages
...process. 1 Tidd, Pr. 401; 4 Bl. Com. 231, calls the offense 'a criminal charge.' 'A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it.' 4 Bl. Com. 5. The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil... | |
 | Eugene Cotran, Neville N. Rubin - Law - 1970 - 462 pages
...the Laws of England, pp. 3 and 4. Another definition given hy Blackstonc in the same place is that a crime is 'an act committed or omitted in violation of a puhlic law forhidding or commanding it'. M See Kenny, Outlines of Criminal Law (15th edn.), p. 16.... | |
 | Judges - 1970 - 342 pages
...misdemeanor. Let us try the conduct Judge Chase by his text. "A crime or misdemeanor (says Judge Blackstone) is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public law cither forbidding or commanding it." "This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Impeachments - 1973 - 744 pages
...great cause to fear it. We understand a crime or misdemeanor to be, in the language of Blackstone: "An act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding it." If the phrase "criminal in nature" means those things which might be made crimes by legislative prohibition,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 362 pages
...common law definition thereof, and we are pointed to what Blackstone says: 5l "A crime or misdemeanor is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law either forbidding or commanding misdemeanors, which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms, though in common usage 'crimes'... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1974 - 538 pages
...wide circulation in the American colonies, defined the terms as follows : I. 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... | |
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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. 
