TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A crime is an act committed or omitted, in violation of a public 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. Wllkins v. TJ. S., 96 Fed. 837, 37 C. C. A. 588; Pounder v. Ashe, 36 Neb. 564, 54 N. W. 847; State … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
Being of sufficiently sound mind so that one may be found guilty of committing a crime, such as being of a certain age and having sufficient mental faculties to understand the difference between right and wrong. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
The offense of buggery or I sodomy. It is a crime not fit to be named; peccatum horrible, inter christianos non nominandum. See Sodomy. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A lawsuit that charges a person with the commission of a crime and which may be filed by federal, state or local government. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A crime which shows a moral depravity that would make one unworthy of being within the United States under immigration law. It is conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals. … [Read more...]