The idea of mala is formed the original justification for common law crimes. However, many crimes that are today prohibited by statute also belong to the category of mala.
Crimes are prosecuted by government attorneys. Such attorneys may represent a city, county, state, or the federal government.
Crimes are ranked as greater violations of public order
prohibited
FORBID',forbad; forbid, forbidden.bid or command against. Hence
,To prohibit; to interdict; to command to forbear or not to do. The laws of God forbid us to swear. Good manners also forbid us to use profane language.
All labor and idle amusements on the sabbath are forbidden.
To command not to enter; as, I have forbid him my house or presence. This phrase seems to be elliptical; to forbid from entering or approaching.
To oppose; to hinder; to obstruct. An impassable river forbids the approach of the army blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
To accurse; to blast. Obs.FORBID', v.i.
To utter a prohibition; but in the intransitive form, there is always an ellipsis. I would go, but my state of health forbids, that is, forbids me to go, or my going.
crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by deatdh
(misdemeanora minor wrongdoing.
STATUTABLE, a. from statute.Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legislature; as a statutable provision or remedy.
law that is derived from custom and judicial precedent rather than statutes. Often contrasted with statutory
law the body of English law as adopted and modified separately by the different states of the US and by the federal government
denoting a partner in a marriage by common law (which recognized unions created by mutual agreement and public behavior), not by a civil or ecclesiastical ceremony.modifier noun: common-law a common-law husband"
CRIME, to condemn.An act which violates a law,
divine or human; efforts an act which violates a rule of moral duty; an offense against the laws of r by God rule of duty plainly implied in those laws.
The commander of a fortress who suffers the enemy to take possession by neglect, is as really criminal, as one who voluntarily opens the gates without resistance.
But a crime denotes an offense, or violation of public law, of a deeper and more atrocious nature; a public wrong; or a violation of the commands of God, and the offenses against the laws made to preserve the public rights; as treason, murder, robbery, theft, arson,
The minor wrongs committed against individuals or private rights, are denominated trespasses, and the minor wrongs against public rights are called misdemeanors. Crimes and misdemeanors are punishable by indictment, information or public prosecution; trespasses or private injuries, at the suit of the individuals injured.
But in many cases an act is considered both as a public offense and a trespass, and is punishable both by the public and the individual injured.Any great wickedness; iniquity; wrong.No crime was thing, if tis no crime to love.
procedure an established or official way of doing something.the police are now reviewing procedures"
Proceedings; gradual progress; course; as the process of a war.Operations; experiment; series of actions or experiments; as a chimical process.Series of motions or changes in growth, decay, &c. in physical bodies; as the process of vegetation or of mineralization; the process of decomposition.Course; continual flux or passage; as the process of time.Methodical management; series of measures or proceedings.The process of the great day--is described by our Savior.In law, the whole course of proceedings, in a cause, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the original writ to the end of the suit. Original process is the means taken to compel the defendant to appear in court. Mesne process is that which issues, pending the suit, upon some collateral or interlocutory matter. Final process is the process of execution.In anatomy, any protuberance, eminence or projecting part of a bone.
GEN'ERAL, a. L. generalis, from genus, a kind.Properly, relating to a whole genus or kind; and hence, relating to a whole class or order. Thus we speak of a general law of the animal or vegetable economy. This word, though from genus, kind, is used to express whatever is common to an order, class, kind, sort or species, or to any company or association of individuals.Comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; as, it is not logical to draw a general inference or conclusion from a particular fact.Lax in signification; not restrained or limited to a particular import; not specific; as a loose and general expression. Public; common; relating to or comprehending the whole community; as the general interest or safety of a nation.Common to many or the greatest number; as a general opinion; a general custom.Not directed to a single object.If the same thing be peculiarly evil, that general aversion will be turned into a particular hatred against it.Having a relation to all; common to the whole. Adam, our general sire.Extensive, though not universal; common; usual.This word is prefixed or annexed to words, to express the extent of their application. Thus a general assembly is an assembly of a whole body, in fact or by representation. In Scotland, it is the whole church convened by its representatives. In America, a legislature is sometimes called a general assembly.
In logic, a general term is a term which is the sign of a general idea.
An attorney general, and a solicitor general, is an officer who conducts suits and prosecutions for the king or for a nation or state, and whose authority is general in the state or kingdom.
A vicar general has authority as vicar or substitute over a whole territory or jurisdiction.
An adjutant general assists the general of an army, distributes orders, receives returns, &c.
The word general thus annexed to a name of office, denotes chief or superior; as a commissary general, quarter-master general.
In the line, a general officer is one who commands an army, a division or a brigade.
GEN'ERAL, n. The whole; the total; that which comprehends all or the chief part; opposed to particular.In particulars our knowledge begins, and so spreads itself by degrees to generals.A history painter paints man in general.In general, in the main; for the most part; not always or universally.I have shown that he excels, in general,under each of these heads.The chief commander of an army. But to distinguish this officer from other generals, he is often called general in chief. The officer second in rank is called lieutenant general.The commander of a division of an army or militia, usually called a major general.The commander of a brigade, called a brigadier general.A particular beat of drum or march, being that which, in the morning, gives notice for the infantry to be in readiness to march.The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations established under the same rule.The public; the interest of the whole; the vulgar. Not in use.
God
god GOD, The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator,and the sovereign of the universe.God is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John A false god; a heathen deity; an idol.Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges 6.prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.Gods here is a bad translation.Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good.Whose god is their belly. Phil.3.
a minor wrongdoing.the player can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanor"
or as lesser violations (misdemeanor), and are adjudicated according to rules of criminal procedure.God is the rewarder of those that diligently seek him
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedurediffers dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or incarcerated, and results in the conviction or acquittal of the defendant.
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