Criminal Act
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A crime. Sometimes applied to the act of crime, as severed from the criminal intent.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Any act punishable as a crime.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A term which is equivalent to crime; or is sometimes used with a slight softening or glossing of the meaning, or as importing a possible question of the legal guilt of the deed.
Defined under Criminal in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
<A term which is equivalent to crime; or is sometimes used with a slight softening or glossing of the meaning, or as importing a possible question of the legal guilt of the deed.