According to Clarendon no misdemeanour so flagrant had ever before offended the dignity of the House of Lords.
Making it a misdemeanourto fail to support aged or infirm parents.
For the slightest misdemeanour we were consigned to the cells for one, two, three, or more days.
For this misdemeanour I was rated severely by the conductor.
However, I distinctly repeat the opinion that any one who acted in the way described in the story would, in my judgment, be guilty of "a misdemeanour of evil example.
I there said, in referring to the Gadarene story, "Everything I know of law and justice convinces me that the wanton destruction of other people's property is a misdemeanour of evil example.
Everything that I know of law and {335} justice convinces me that the wanton destruction of other people's property is a misdemeanour of evil example.
But, towards the close of the reign of Charles the Second, the judges had pronounced that it was a misdemeanour at common law to publish political intelligence without the King's license.
John Collins and William Lovett were then brought up and asked why the court should not pronounce sentence upon them for the misdemeanour of which they had been convicted?
The matter was again taken up by the Commons, and Lord Falkland was declared guilty of a high misdemeanour and committed to the Tower, whence, however, in two days he was released on his own petition.
At the same time it should be a misdemeanour in anyone else to supply him gratuitously.
For all these reasons, to be drunk is in itself an offence against the community, prior to any statute forbidding it, prior to any misdemeanour superinduced by it.
Occasionally it was still possible to meet those who consider it a solemn misdemeanour if not a hideous crime to portray one's friends and acquaintance in the spirit, or with the pen of humour.
This was due to the clever and unscrupulous plans of a Madame Rachel Leverson, who successfully obtained money in this way, and who was finally convicted of misdemeanour and obtaining money by false pretences.
But the spirit of the law clearly was that no misdemeanour should be punished more severely than the most atrocious felonies.
Any material omission or false statement of his losses or expenses is a misdemeanour under the Debtors Act, unless he can prove that he had no intention to defraud.
These laws usually make it a misdemeanour for persons either to labour themselves or to compel or permit their apprentices, servants or other employes, to labour on the first day of the week.
It had reference to the resolution of the Commons, impugning as a high crime andmisdemeanour the circulation of the opinions of the King, with a view to influence the decision of Parliament.
Is Samuel Chase, Esquire, guilty of a high crime or misdemeanour in the article of impeachment just read?
Four bills were immediately delivered to the grand jury against Blennerhassett and Burr; one for treason and one for misdemeanour against each.
If these find him guilty of any misdemeanour they order him a proportionate beating with the stick.
In 1326 we have the record of a charge against one Zanino Grioni for insulting Donna Moreta in the Campo of San Vitale; a misdemeanour punished by the Council of Forty with two months' imprisonment.
The information with respect to the non-arrival of the vessels was given them by a Spaniard, who, on account of some misdemeanour or other, had been obliged to quit the town of Santisteban del Puerto.
Lerma, who once saved Cortes' life, was a courageous soldier; but on account of some misdemeanour or other he fled to the Indians, and we never after heard of him.
Many examples may be cited from the history of the age of samurai suicides, committed on account of some misdemeanour or the mismanagement of the civil administration confided to him.
Besides, the daimyo in general became wiser and more docile in order not to lose their estates on account of any misdemeanour toward the Shogun.
It is a misdemeanour to give to a woman any drug so as to stupefy her, and so enable any person to have unlawful connection with her.
It is a misdemeanourfor any person or persons to procure drugs or instruments for a like purpose.
The justification given by Bradlaugh for making it a misdemeanour to hold land idle was that already it was a misdemeanour for a labourer to live as an idle vagrant, and that the law insisted on his utilising his labour power.
That is, make it a misdemeanour to hold cultivable lands in an uncultivated state.
Severe punishment is very seldom necessary, and Benninghausen does not possess the provision for treating acts of extreme misdemeanour which is to be found in some other German Labour Houses.
Any person who unlawfully or maliciously destroys or damages any book, map, print, manuscript or other article belonging to the libraries shall be liable to prosecution for misdemeanour under the provisions of 24 & 25 Vict.
This gives power to prosecute for misdemeanour any person who unlawfully and maliciously destroys or damages any book, manuscript, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misdemeanour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
