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Definition of Misdemeanors
1. misdemeanor [n] - See also: misdemeanor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misdemeanors
Literary usage of Misdemeanors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"distribution of felonies and misdemeanors among our institutional groups. It will
be seen at a glance that the offenses against chastity constitute the ..."
2. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1882)
"All crimes, which are neither treason nor felony, are misdemeanors. Statute-felonies
are either misdemeanors, whose prosecution and punishment are, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps, Andrew Amos (1838)
"misdemeanors. A separate provision is introduced in the same statute, ... 4,
which is as follows : " And whereas there are certain misdemeanors, ..."
4. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions, and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1829)
"OF INDICTABLE misdemeanors IN GENERAL. MISDEMEANOR has been, in many works on
jurispru- ... But misdemeanors AT COMMON LAW are not so misdemeanors easily ..."
5. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"misdemeanors. §. misdemeanors comprise all offences lower than felonies, which
may be the subject of indictment. They are divided into two classes: ..."
6. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1903)
"(In " Barrows' New legislation concerning crimes, misdemeanors, etc." 1900. pp.
297-303.) North Dakota. [Digest of the game laws of North Dakota for 1897-98 ..."
7. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"ACTS INVOLVING PUBLIC MISCHIEF. deemed to be injurious to the public have in some
instances been held to be misdemeanors, because it appeared to the Court ..."
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