英语词汇“misprision of felony”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Law (now historical in some jurisdictions). In full misprision of treason, misprision of felony. Originally: an offence similar to but less serious than treason or felony. Now usually: the crime of (deliberately) concealing one's knowledge of a treasonable act or of a felony.It was often supposed, from the fact that a person's knowledge of treasonable actions or designs was deemed in various statutes to be misprision of treason, that the word misprision itself expressed the sense of ‘failure to denounce’ a crime. Sir E. Coke attempted to account for this development etymologically:

a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Laws Eng. (1644) iii. 36 Misprisio commeth of the French word Mepris, which properly signifieth mal, as mis doth in the English tongue: as mischance, for an ill-chance, and so mesprise is ill apprehended or known. In legall understanding it signifieth, when one knoweth of any treason or felony, and concealeth it, this is misprision, so called, because the knowledge of it is an ill knowledge to him, in respect of the severe punishment for not revealing of it.

In English law the crime of misprision of felony lapsed upon the abolition of the distinction between felonies and misdemeanours by the Criminal Law Act 1967.

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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > felony

felony1303

misprision1533

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > treason > offences related to treason

petty treason1496

misprision of treason1533

petit treason1605

statutory treason1678

constructive treasona1715

treason-felony1865

1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 §9 Yf any person..being commaunded..to take the seid othe..obstynatly refuse that to doo..that every suche refusall shalbe..adjudged mesprysion of high treason.

1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 11 Provided also..that concealment or kepinge secrete of any Highe Treason be deemed and taken only mysprision of Treason.

1572 Act 14 Eliz. c. 3 That yf any person or persons hereafter..counterfayte any suche kind of Coygne..as is not the proper Coigne of this Realme... That then everye suche Offence shalbee deemed and adjudged mysprision of Highe Treason.

1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) (at cited word) Misprision of felonie or trespasse.

1620 in J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 180 Now, besides thes two sortes, high treason and petye treason, the lawyers mention a third kind, which they tearme misprision of treason.

1690 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 39 Misprisions of Treasons are those that conceal any sort of Treasons, or harbour the Traytors, knowing them to be such.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 119 Misprisions..are..generally understood to be all such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon: and it is said, that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever; and that, if the king so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only.

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! II. vi. 176 Amyas was guilty of something very like misprision of treason in not handing him over to the nearest justice.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxii. 161 He could hardly have been brought to declare any ignorance unless he had been arrested for misprision of treason.

1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 692/1 Four days later he [sc. Thomas More] was removed to the Tower, and in the following November was attainted of misprision of treason.

1962 Ld. Denning in Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 554 Lawyers know, roughly..what ‘misprision of felony’ means. It means that a man knows that a felony has been committed and neglects to disclose it.

1963 Times 2 Mar. 9/5 If the police then decline to prosecute, it is very possible that, under a recent decision of the House of Lords, they will be liable for misprision of felony.

1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. a14/1 A criminal statute called ‘misprision of a felony’ makes it a crime in some circumstances to fail to report knowledge of a crime committed.

单词	misprision of felony
释义	> as lemmas misprision of felony b. Law (now historical in some jurisdictions). In full misprision of treason, misprision of felony. Originally: an offence similar to but less serious than treason or felony. Now usually: the crime of (deliberately) concealing one's knowledge of a treasonable act or of a felony.It was often supposed, from the fact that a person's knowledge of treasonable actions or designs was deemed in various statutes to be misprision of treason, that the word misprision itself expressed the sense of ‘failure to denounce’ a crime. Sir E. Coke attempted to account for this development etymologically: a1634 E. Coke 3rd Pt. Inst. Laws Eng. (1644) iii. 36 Misprisio commeth of the French word Mepris, which properly signifieth mal, as mis doth in the English tongue: as mischance, for an ill-chance, and so mesprise is ill apprehended or known. In legall understanding it signifieth, when one knoweth of any treason or felony, and concealeth it, this is misprision, so called, because the knowledge of it is an ill knowledge to him, in respect of the severe punishment for not revealing of it. In English law the crime of misprision of felony lapsed upon the abolition of the distinction between felonies and misdemeanours by the Criminal Law Act 1967. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a crime > felony felony1303 misprision1533 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > treason > offences related to treason petty treason1496 misprision of treason1533 petit treason1605 statutory treason1678 constructive treasona1715 treason-felony1865 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 §9 Yf any person..being commaunded..to take the seid othe..obstynatly refuse that to doo..that every suche refusall shalbe..adjudged mesprysion of high treason. 1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 11 Provided also..that concealment or kepinge secrete of any Highe Treason be deemed and taken only mysprision of Treason. 1572 Act 14 Eliz. c. 3 That yf any person or persons hereafter..counterfayte any suche kind of Coygne..as is not the proper Coigne of this Realme... That then everye suche Offence shalbee deemed and adjudged mysprision of Highe Treason. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) (at cited word) Misprision of felonie or trespasse. 1620 in J. Smith Hist. Bermudaes (1882) 180 Now, besides thes two sortes, high treason and petye treason, the lawyers mention a third kind, which they tearme misprision of treason. 1690 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 39 Misprisions of Treasons are those that conceal any sort of Treasons, or harbour the Traytors, knowing them to be such. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 119 Misprisions..are..generally understood to be all such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon: and it is said, that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever; and that, if the king so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! II. vi. 176 Amyas was guilty of something very like misprision of treason in not handing him over to the nearest justice. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxii. 161 He could hardly have been brought to declare any ignorance unless he had been arrested for misprision of treason. 1912 Catholic Encycl. XIV. 692/1 Four days later he [sc. Thomas More] was removed to the Tower, and in the following November was attainted of misprision of treason. 1962 Ld. Denning in Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 554 Lawyers know, roughly..what ‘misprision of felony’ means. It means that a man knows that a felony has been committed and neglects to disclose it. 1963 Times 2 Mar. 9/5 If the police then decline to prosecute, it is very possible that, under a recent decision of the House of Lords, they will be liable for misprision of felony. 1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Dec. a14/1 A criminal statute called ‘misprision of a felony’ makes it a crime in some circumstances to fail to report knowledge of a crime committed. extracted from misprisionn.¹ < as lemmas
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