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Definition of Misprision
1. n. The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
Definition of Misprision
1. Noun. (legal) Criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties. ¹
2. Noun. Misinterpretation or misunderstanding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misprision
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Medical Definition of Misprision
1. 1. The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. "The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion." (Hare) 2. Neglect; undervaluing; contempt. 3. A neglect, negligence, or contempt. In its larger and older sense it was used to signify "every considerable misdemeanor which has not a certain name given to it in the law." In a more modern sense it is applied exclusively to two offenses: 1. Misprision of treason, which is omission to notify the authorities of an act of treason by a person cognizant thereof. 2. Misprision of felony, which is a concealment of a felony by a person cognizant thereof. Origin: LL. Misprisio, or OF. Mesprison, prop, a mistaking, but confused with OF. Mespris contempt, F. Mepris. See Misprise, Misprize, Prison. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misprision
Literary usage of Misprision
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"THO the order proposed in the beginning should refer misprision of treason to
that series of offenses, that are not capital, yet because this offense hath ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Concealment of bulls, &c. from Rome, is misprision of treason. By the st. 14 El.
3. To counterfeit coin not of this realm, nor current here, is misprision ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis ( Bacon (1824)
"WH ERE a man concealeth high treason only, without any comforting or abetting,
it is misprision of treason. The punishment, trial, and proceeding in cases ..."
4. Principles of Criminal Law by Seymour Frederick Harris, Avlet Agabeg, Manning Ferguson Force (1885)
"misprision OF TREASON. misprision of treason consists in the bare knowledge and
concealment of treason, any degree of assent making the party a principal. ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord by Francis Bacon (1819)
"The proceeding in case of treason with a common subject is in the King's bench,
or by commission of Oyer and Terminer. misprision OF TREASON. ..."
6. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1843)
"CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. OF misprision OF FELONY, AND OF COMPOUNDING OFFENCES.
BY misprision of felony, is generally understood the concealment ..."
7. Elementary Law by William Callyhan Robinson (1910)
"Of misprision of Felony: Receiving Stolen Goods. misprision of Felony is the
neglect of any person, who knows that a felony has been or is about to be ..."
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