There is an additional section which provides for similar punishment in the cases of persons convicted of a misdemeanor or violation of a city ordinance, who makes similar contracts before a recorder or mayor.
It is also made a misdemeanor to employ any farm laborer while under contract with another, or to persuade or entice a farm laborer to leave his employer.
As to the dissolution, it was asked what misdemeanor the late House of Commons had committed?
Failure to do so used to be considered a misdemeanor but it has recently been made a felony punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to three years unless he give bond for their maintenance.
How dare the remonstrating women of Massachusetts declare that they fear the loss of privileges, one of which is the immunity from punishment for a misdemeanor committed in the husband's presence?
The same year it was made a misdemeanor and punishable as such for a man to desert a woman whom he married to escape prosecution for seduction.
Here the name of crime or misdemeanor is applied to every act of commission or neglect repugnant to the duties required of all men, either from their common nature or particular calling.
South; a misdemeanor in South Carolina to serve meals to blacks and whites in the same room.
In 1907 South Carolina makes it a misdemeanor to serve meals at station eating-houses to whites and blacks in the same room.
One made it a misdemeanor for a married man to make an offer of marriage.
In 1899 the question of discrimination against union labor becomes still more prominent and it is in some States made a misdemeanor to make the belonging or not belonging to a union a condition of employment.
South Carolina makes it a misdemeanor to fail to work after being employed on a contract for personal services, or for the employer on his side to fail to carry it out.
Legislation against the open shop continues in far Western States, while Minnesota makes it a misdemeanor for an employer to exact as a condition of employment that the employee shall not take part in a strike.
In Kansas, by a statute of 1900, it is made a misdemeanor for a bystander to refuse to assist a sheriff in quelling a riotous disorder.
North Dakota has also a statute prohibiting unfair competition and discrimination as against localities, while Tennessee makes it a misdemeanor to sell any article below cost or to give it away for the purpose of destroying competition.
Borough, for any misdemeanor rude or disorderly behavior, may be committed to the workhouse to hard labor and receive correction not exceeding thirty lashes.
It forbade convocations of slaves, and made it a misdemeanor to carry arms.
The manner of conducting the trials of Negroes charged with felony or misdemeanorwas rather peculiar.
The law made it a misdemeanor for a free person to purchase any thing from a slave, and hence cut off a source of revenue to the more industrious slaves, who by their frugality often prepared something for sale.
And, in order to destroy the ready market this wide-spread kleptomania found, an Act was passed making it a misdemeanor for a free person to purchase any article from slaves.
Brother Wood was tenting about two miles from our encampment with two or three other families, who for some misdemeanor had been expelled from the camp.
An offender might be made to stand on a stool in church with the name of his misdemeanor displayed on his breast.
Cases of misdemeanor and crime amongst themselves were to be tried by two rabbis and four assessors.
More important to the Jews of Rome was the point that the accusations of transgressing the harsh laws of Paul IV were not heard, as well as the charge of misdemeanor against those who had not given up their copies of the Talmud.
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.
To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp.
Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanoror trespass, or other slight offense.
The People will prove that the defendant was committing a misdemeanor at the time.
By Section 1950 of the Penal Law it is a misdemeanor to render the highways dangerous or to render a considerable number of persons insecure in life.
They would show that the defendant was not committing a misdemeanor at the time, for to attain a speed of twenty-five or thirty miles on a lonely road was not even violating the speed law, as everyone who owned a car knew very well.
When the National Conference of Charities and Corrections was holding its session in Atlanta the first of the present month, some of the delegates were invited to visit the city prison stockade where misdemeanor convicts are housed at night.
The smallest fault or misdemeanorcommitted by any one connected with the clergy is exposed by these journals to general scandal, aggravated by spiteful comment, exaggerated, then thrown as a rare morsel to open-mouthed multitudes.
His misdemeanor in the prison was swearing at one of the warders, and threatening to break his skull against the wall; even after the fearful infliction of the dark cell, he repeated his threat to "do for him.
The punishment will be as formisdemeanor by fine and imprisonment.
Later, trespass on the case bifurcates into misdemeanor and the tort of trespass.
A contumacious witness is not twice subjected to jeopardy for refusing to testify before a committee of the United States Senate, by being punished for contempt of the Senate and also indicted for a misdemeanor for such refusal.
To see to the strict enforcement of all laws relating to Sabbath observance, making it a misdemeanor to play any public games on the Lord's Day.
If they had a grudge against the white race for some misdemeanor some white man may have committed, they might kill you in retaliation.
In my opinion, the misdemeanor of adultery should be entirely abolished from penal law.
There is one question, however, which arises: Can prostitution in itself be regarded as a misdemeanor punishable by law?
As regards prostitution itself, it cannot be made a misdemeanor without opening the door too widely to complete arbitrariness.
It is a crime or misdemeanor which should be prosecuted like negro slavery or usury.
