Misdemeanour in Europe
Definition of Misdemeanour
Any crime or indictable offence not amounting to felony : such as perjury, battery, libel, conspiracy, and public nuisances. At common law, misdemeanours are generally punishable by fine and imprisonment ; now with or without hard labour. In many cases special punishments have been attached to misdemeanours by statute
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Definition of Misdemeanour is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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