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Definition of Misprisions
1. misprision [n] - See also: misprision
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misprisions
Literary usage of Misprisions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"misprisions (a term derived from the old French, mespris, a neglect or contempt)
are, in the acceptation of our law, generally understood to be all such ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work by William Blackstone, Edward Christian, Joseph Chitty, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee, Archer Ryland (1853)
"misprisions and contempts are all such high offences as are under the degree of
capital ... Positive misprisions, or high misdemeanors and contempts, are, ..."
3. The Most Material Parts of Blackstone's Commentaries, Reduced to Questions by John C. Devereux, William Blackstone, Asa Kinne (1891)
"1, What are misprisions and contempts against the king and government ?—119. ...
Of what kinds are misprisions negative ?—120121. ..."
4. The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, George Cruikshank (1869)
"... I should be guilty of misprision, and liable to fine and imprisonment.
Positive misprisions are called contempts or high misdemeanours; ..."
5. The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books by William Blackstone, Robert Malcolm Kerr (1869)
"misprisions, from the French, mespris, a contempt, are all such high offences as
... misprisions are either negative, which consist in the concealment of ..."
6. Essentials of the Law by Marshall Davis Ewell (1915)
"misprisions (a term derived from the old French mespris ... [119] misprisions
are generally divided into two sorts: negative, which consist in the ..."
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