 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
 | 1925 - 1628 pages
...wrongs, or crimes 147 tu l'ac. J028.) and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of public rights and duties, due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social, aggregate capacity. Id. 6. Contempts of court are treated by all elementary writers as public wrongs. They are distinguished... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1628 pages
...wrongs, or crimes 147 Рас. /028.) and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of public rights and duties, due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social, aggregate capacity. Id. 6. Contempts of court are treated by all elementary writers as public wrongs. They are distinguished... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1646 pages
...individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors,, are a breach and violation of public rights and duties, due to the whole community, considered as a community in its social, aggregate capacity. Id. 6. Contempts of court are treated by all elementary writers as public wrongs. They are distinguished... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 952 pages
...estoppel. A crime has been defined as "a public wrong in that it affects public rights and is an injury to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity." (16 CJ, p. 54.) It is an act committed against the public and not against an individual merely. The... | |
 | Judges - 1970 - 342 pages
...observes 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 Coinm., 5. ) Thus it appears crimes and misdemeanors are the violation of a law exposing the person... | |
 | Ferdinand David Schoeman - Philosophy - 1987 - 370 pages
...nature of the harm calling for redress. In the words of Blackstone, crimes are social harms affecting "the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity . . . they strike at the very being of society, which cannot subsist where actions of this sort are... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1991 - 1266 pages
...law, either forbidding or commanding it; 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. "Crime" and "misdemeanor," properly speaking, are synonymous terms;... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - Law - 1994 - 900 pages
...the viewpoint of public wrongs or crimes, ie, involving a violation of the public rights and duties to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity. Do the provisions of this Bill, as alleged by the Attorney-General for Canada, invade the domain of... | |
 | Sandra L. Bem - Social Science - 1993 - 260 pages
...wrote: Crimes and misdemeanors are a breach and a violation of ... public rights and duties, owing to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity. . . . Private vices . . . are not, cannot be, the object of any municipal law. . . . Thus the vice... | |
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