Resolved, That we arraign Ward Hunt, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors in his office, committed on the trial of Susan B.
In this respect the patrol was a body for the regulation of society, so far as petty misdemeanors were concerned, and every respectable white man was by virtue of his color a member of this police guard.
Before the war the negro was no expense to the state and county treasuries; his misdemeanors were punished by his master.
The distinction, however, between felonies and misdemeanors is purely arbitrary, and is in most jurisdictions either abrogated or so far reduced as to be without practical value.
Private wrongs are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals; public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect the community.
Your friend seemed in trouble; allow me to atone for my past misdemeanors by offering my services now.
As a proof, among many others, of the enormous extent of the River Plunder, the convictions for misdemeanors under the Act of the 2d Geo.
The tendency of modern American legislation is toward placing the collection of penalties for misdemeanors wholly in the hands of public officers.
While there bail must be allowed in case of misdemeanors and may be in case of felonies; the amount required is frequently so large as to be prohibitory.
Is Samuel Chase, the respondent, guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors as charged in the article just read?
Is Samuel Chase guilty of the high crimes and misdemeanors as charged in the articles just read?
The Treasurer and the Secretary of the Treasury were both civil officers, and were both liable to impeachment for misdemeanors in office; and great misdemeanors were charged upon them.
On the other hand, it should stand for the protection of society from the degradations, annoyances andmisdemeanors of the individual who would thus be a burden upon his fellows and upon society as a whole.
The purpose of each Municipal Emergency Home, as advocated in this volume, is to remove all excuse for beggary and other petty misdemeanors that follow in the wake of the homeless man.
Official misconduct, including in the cases of Chase and Humphreys offensive utterances, constituted the high crimes and misdemeanors for which they were respectively arraigned.
A little later he was extradited by the Cuban government, and was brought back to that island as a prisoner, to undergo trial for alleged misdemeanors committed when he was Governor.
This habit may even be traced in the schools of the rising generation, where the children in their games are wont to submit to rules which they have themselves established, and to punish misdemeanors which they have themselves defined.
I say the greater number because certain administrative misdemeanors are brought before the ordinary tribunals.
Grand-jurors are bound by the law to apprize the court to which they belong of all the misdemeanors which may have been committed in their county.
Many of the wavering Republicans now had their doubts of the expediency of impeachment cleared away, and on February 24 the resolution formally impeaching the President of "high crimes and misdemeanors in office" was passed.
But that was simply the arraignment of a subordinate official, upon charges of peculation and cruelty--misdemeanors not uncommon with the Englishmen of that day who were entrusted with Colonial administration.
For sundry misdemeanors while in office the major was relieved, and another appointed in his stead.
Who absconded from Ripley, Ohio, to evade the strong arm of the law he richly deserved for misdemeanors in that town.
For which of her misdemeanors was she to be arraigned this time?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misdemeanors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
