. A manual of the general principles of law : as stated in Blackstone and the leading writers on the law of pleading ; together with a chapter of suggestions to students, and a law glossary ; collected and arranged so as to be more easily acquired by students, and readily reviewed by young practitioners. ^tyCtj^^lAy^fjt:;^.. PIJBIilC WROXGS, being: breaches of generaland public rig-lits, affect tbe wbole commnuity,and are called crimes and misdemeanors, in treating of which may be considered the general nafure ofcrimes and punishments, the persons capable of committingcrimes, their several deg
. A manual of the general principles of law : as stated in Blackstone and the leading writers on the law of pleading ; together with a chapter of suggestions to students, and a law glossary ; collected and arranged so as to be more easily acquired by students, and readily reviewed by young practitioners. ^tyCtj^^lAy^fjt:;^.. PIJBIilC WROXGS, being: breaches of generaland public rig-lits, affect tbe wbole commnuity,and are called crimes and misdemeanors, in treating of which may be considered the general nafure ofcrimes and punishments, the persons capable of committingcrimes, their several degrees of guilt, the several species ofcrimes, the means of preverding crime, and the method ofpunishment. GEXERAIi XATURE OF CRIMES AX» THEIRPUNISHMEXT.—A crime or misdemeanor is anact committed or omitted in violation of a public law eitherforbidding or commanding it. A crime, in its limited sense, is confined to are indictable, and are defined and punishable bystatute and common law. A misdemeanor, in its limited sense, is a lesser degreeof crime, and includes offences inferior to felony, but stillpunishable by indictment and other prescribed proceedings. Offences are crimes not indictable, but punishable sum-marily, or by forfeiture of a penalty. Misprisons and contempts are all such high offenceaas
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