Category: C

This term is the right of a court to hear and to decide the cases of a criminal nature.

One instituted and conducted for the purpose either of preventing the commission of crime, or for fixing the guilt of a crime already committed and punishing the offender; as distinguished from a ÒcivilÓ proceeding, which is for the redress of a private injury, r. S. v. Lee Huen CD. C.l 118 Fed. 442 : Sevier v. Washington County Justices. Peck (Tenn.) 334: People v. Ontario County. 4 Denio (N. Y.) 260.

That branch or division of law which treats of crimes and their punishments.

To charge one with crime; to furnish ground for a criminal prosecution; to expose a person to a criminal charge. A witness cannot be compelled to answer any question which has a tendency to criminate him. Stewart v. Johnson, 18 N. J. Law, 87; Kendrick v. Comm., 78 Va. 490.

The crime or offense of theft.

the action that is taken against a person who disobeys, or acts contemptuously or demeans the court of law.

The crime of burning, which included not only the modem crime of arson, but also the burning of a man, a beast, or other chattel. Britt. c. 0: Crabb, Eng. Law, 308.

Adultery, considered in its aspect of a civil injury to the husband entitling him to damages: the tort of debauching or seducing of a wife. Often abbreviated to crim. Con

The nameless crime; the crime against nature; sodomy or buggery.

the name of the court where criminal cases are tried and not civil cases.