public wrong

In doing so, he has turned his affair into a public wrong.

To achieve that end, an act of violence was made a public wrong punishable by the state.

According to Blackstone, English common law identified murder as a public wrong.

Generally considered monopoly power, some view this "public wrong" as the most influential factor in artificial scarcity.

When that happens, the likelihood is even greater unfairness, injustice and public wrongs.

Texas proved the public wrong by defeating the Yellow Jackets 14-7 in what was mostly a defensive battle.

Equally he is angry about public wrongs, about anything that suppresses individualism or makes life more difficult for people like himself.

The lawyers contended that history showed neither private sexual misconduct nor "most public wrongs" met the constitutional standard.

While he considers these functions a public wrong, Kellogg also asserted the responsibility of the public to find and implement a remedy.

Of Public Wrongs is Blackstone's treatise on criminal law.

It was made into a "public wrong" iniuria publica by the Roman Emperor Constantine.

This is a direct attack on the rule of law in our country and a very public wrong that goes to the constitutional workings of our Government.

These were divided into two 14-lecture series, on "private wrongs" and "public wrongs" delivered between 12 February and 24 April.

Moreover, the lawyers argued, guilt can only be established in a criminal contempt case by actions that amounted to "a public wrong against the court," not against others.

The work is divided into four volumes, on the rights of persons, the rights of things, of private wrongs and of public wrongs.

The PILs are filed in a high court against state or public authorities that have caused a public wrong or injury through some act or omission.

I wish, where they have done the truth and the public wrong, they would be as ready to redress it, and allow its just weight to this reflection, viz.

Nature has endowed some animals with cunning, as a compensation for strength withheld; but it has provoked the malice of all others, as if avengers of public wrong.

Over the last decade, victims of criminal acts have been allowed to take part in various ways in the criminal justice system, and their involvement has shown that public wrong and private injury cannot be completely separated.

One of the most serious charges the Police Department has leveled against Capt. Eric Adams, a senior commander whose departmental trial began yesterday, is that he gave the public wrong information during a television interview after a terror alert last fall.

At the worst, then, to help oneself from the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin- Hoodish readjustment of a public wrong.

The traditional view is that crimes are public wrongs and that the criminal law addresses those who harm society through morally culpable acts in order that punishment may be imposed and potential offenders may thereby be deterred from committing similar offenses.

Public wrongs are called crimes or public offenses whereas private wrongs are called torts and either involve the breach of a duty of care, a wrongful trespass against the person or property of another and breaches of agreement or contract.

In other words, the question is what should be seen as a private wrong (as was held in the vertical restraints case of Courage Ltd v Crehan) and what should be seen as a public wrong where only public enforcers are competent to impose penalties.