That private wrongs or civil injuries are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties... Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 4by William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1867Full view - About this book
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...(a), that crimes and misdemesnors are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties, owing to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity. And in the very entrance of these Commentaries (b) it was shewn, that human laws can have no concern... | |
| William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...individuals ; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity. In all cases the crime includes an injury; every public offence is also a private wrong, affecting... | |
| Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - Criminal law - 1845 - 756 pages
...public justice. " Public wrongs or misdemeanors are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties, due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social, aggregate capacity. — Private wrongs or civil injuries are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 680 pages
...point to have produced authority to show, that when " a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity" is punished by a fine only, such breach and violation constitutes neither a crime nor a misdemeanor.... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 886 pages
...that public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, arc a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social, aggregate capacity." •! Comm. 5. Thus, it appears, crimes and misdemeanors are the violation of a law, exposing the person... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 928 pages
...that public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social, aggregate capacity." 4 Comm. 5. Thus, it appears, crimes and misdemeanors are the violation of a law, exposing the person... | |
| Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...forbidding or commanding it. 4 Bl. Com. 5. — A breach or violation of some public right or duty due to a whole community, considered as a community in its social aggregate capacity ; as distinguished from a civil injury.* Id. ibid. See Civil injury. — The violation of a right when considered... | |
| John Hubert Plunkett, William Hattam Wilkinson - Criminal law - 1860 - 642 pages
...considered merely as individuals ; " whilst crimes are " a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity." Murder and robbery are properly ranked amongst crimes, since, besides the injury involved in them to... | |
| John Hubert Plunkett, William Hattam Wilkinson - Criminal law - 1860 - 670 pages
...considered merely as individuals ; " whilst crimes are "a breach anil violation of the public rights and duties due. to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity." Murder niid robbery are properly ranked amongst crimes, since, besides the injury involved in them... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...individuals: public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate ca|«city. In all cases, therefore, a crime includes an injury; every public offence is also a private... | |
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