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CRIMINAL

CRIME

ministration of justice. Matzenbaugh r. People, 194 111. 108, 62 N. E. 546, 88 Am. St Rep. 134; Little v. Gibson, 39 N. H. 510; State v. Randolph, 24 Conn. 365; Webb v. State, 29 Ohio St. 358; Johnston r. Riley, 13 Ga. 97. Crimen falsi dicitur, cum quis illicit us, cui non fuerit ad haec data auctorit as, de sigillo regis, rapto vel invento, brevia, cartasve consignaverit. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 23. The crime of forgery is when any one illicitly, to whom power has not been given for such purposes, has signed writs or charters with the king's seal, either stolen or found. CRIMEN -L2ESM MAJESTATIS. In criminal law. The crime of lese-majesty, or injuring majesty or royalty; high treason. The term was used by the older English law writers to denote any crime affecting the king's person or dignity. It is borrowed from the civil law, in which it signified the undertaking of any enter prise against the emperor or the republic. Inst 4, 18, 3. Crimen lsesee majestatis omnia alia crimina excedit quoad pcenam. 3 Inst 210. The crime of treason exceeds all other crimes in its punishment Crimen omnia ex se natavitiat. Crime vitiates everything which springs from it Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 531. Crimen trahit personam. The crime carries the person, (i. e., the commission of a crime gives the courts of the place where it is committed jurisdiction over the person of the offender.) People v. Adams, 3 Denio (N. Y.) 190, 210, 45 Am. Dec. 468. Crimina morte extingnuntur. Crimes are extinguished by death. CRIMINAL, n. One who has committed a criminal offense; one who has been legally convicted of a crime; one adjudged guilty of crime. Molineux v. Collins, 177 N. Y. 395, 69 N. E. 727, 65 L. R. A. 104. CRIMINAL, adj. That which pertains to or Is connected with the law of crimes, or the administration of penal justice, or which relates to or has the character of crime. Charleston v. Beller, 45 W. Va. 44, 30 S. E. 152; State v. Burton, 113 N. a 655, 18 S. E. 657. —Criminal act. A term which Is equivalent to crime; or is sometimes used with a slight softening or glossing of the meaning, or as im porting a possible question of the legal guilt of the deed.—Criminal action. The proceed ing by which a party charged with a public offense is accused and brought to trial and pun ishment is known as a "criminal action." Pen.

"Infamous," as used in the fifth amendment to the United States constitution, in reference to crimes, includes those only of the class called "crimen falsi," which both involve the charge of falsehood, and may also injuriously affect the public administration of justice by introducing falsehood and fraud. U. S. v. Block, 15 N. B. R. 325, Fed. Oas. No. 14,609. By the Revised Statutes of New York the term "infamous crime," when used in any statute, is directed to be construed as including every offense pun ishable with death or by imprisonment in a state-prison, and no other. 2 Rev. St. (p. 702, § 31,) p. 587, § 32.—Quasi crimes. This term embraces all offenses not crimes or misdemean ors, but that are in the nature of crimes,—a class of offenses against the public which have not bee'n declared crimes, but wrongs against the general or local public which it is proper should be repressed or punished by forfeitures and penalties. This would embrace all qui tarn actions and forfeitures imposed for the neglect or violation of a public duty. A quasi crime would not embrace an indictable offense, what ever might be its grade, but simply forfeitures for a wrong done to the public, whether volun tary or involuntary, where a penalty is given, whether recoverable by criminal or civil pro cess. Wiggins v. Chicago, 68 111. 375.—Statu tory crimes. Those created by statutes, as distinguished from such as are known to, or cognizable by, the common law. —Crimen furti. The crime or offense of theft—Crimen incendii. The crime of burn ing, which included not only the modern crime of arson, but also the burning of a man, a beast, or other chattel. Britt. c. 9; Crabb, Eng. Law, 308.—Crimen innominatum. The nameless crime; the crime against nature; sodomy or buggery.—Crimen raptus. The crime of rape.—Crimen roberiae. The of fense of robbery.—Flagrans crimen; Locus eriminis; Particeps criminis. See those titles. CRIMEN FAIiSI. In the civil law. The crime of falsifying; which might be committed either by writing, as by the for gery of a will or other instrument; by words, as by bearing false witness, or per jury ; and by acts, as by counterfeiting or adulterating the public money, dealing with false weights and measures, counterfeiting seals, and other fraudulent and deceitful practices. Dig. 48, 10; Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 12, nn. 56-59. In Scotch law. It has been defined: "A fraudulent imitation or suppression of truth, to the prejudice of another." Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 66. At common law. Any crime which may injuriously affect the administration of jus tice, by the introduction of falsehood and fraud. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 373. In modern law. This phrase Is not used as a designation of any specific crime, but as a general designation of a class of of fenses, including all such as involve deceit or falsification; e. g., forgery, counterfeit ing, using false weights or measures, per jury, etc. CRIMEN. Lat Crime. Also an accu sation or charge of crime.

Includes forgery, perjury, subornation ot perjury, and offenses affecting the public ad