felony 音标拼音: [f'ɛləni]
n . 重罪
重罪
felony n 1 :
a serious crime (
such as murder or arson )
Felony \
Fel "
o *
ny \,
n .;
pl . {
Felonies }. [
OE .
felonie cruelty ,
OF .
felonie ,
F .
f ['
e ]
lonie treachery ,
malice .
See {
Felon },
n .]
1 . (
Feudal Law )
An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture . --
Burrill .
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2 . (
O .
Eng .
Law )
An offense which occasions a total forfeiture either lands or goods ,
or both ,
at the common law ,
and to which capital or other punishment may be added ,
according to the degree of guilt .
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3 .
A heinous crime ;
especially ,
a crime punishable by death or imprisonment .
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Note :
Forfeiture for crime having been generally abolished in the United States ,
the term felony ,
in American law ,
has lost this point of distinction ;
and its meaning ,
where not fixed by statute ,
is somewhat vague and undefined ;
generally ,
however ,
it is used to denote an offense of a high grade ,
punishable either capitally or by a term of imprisonment .
In Massachusetts ,
by statute ,
any crime punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison ,
and no other ,
is a felony ;
so in New York .
the tendency now is to obliterate the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors ;
and this has been done partially in England ,
and completely in some of the States of the Union .
The distinction is purely arbitrary ,
and its entire abolition is only a question of time .
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Note :
There is no lawyer who would undertake to tell what a felony is ,
otherwise than by enumerating the various kinds of offenses which are so called .
originally ,
the word felony had a meaning :
it denoted all offenses the penalty of which included forfeiture of goods ;
but subsequent acts of Parliament have declared various offenses to be felonies ,
without enjoining that penalty ,
and have taken away the penalty from others ,
which continue ,
nevertheless ,
to be called felonies ,
insomuch that the acts so called have now no property whatever in common ,
save that of being unlawful and purnishable . --
J .
S .
Mill .
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{
To compound a felony }.
See under {
Compound },
v .
t .
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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "
felony ":
atrocity ,
breach ,
crime ,
crime against humanity ,
deadly sin ,
delict ,
delinquency ,
dereliction ,
enormity ,
error ,
evil ,
failure ,
fault ,
genocide ,
guilty act ,
heavy sin ,
illegality ,
impropriety ,
indiscretion ,
inexpiable sin ,
iniquity ,
injury ,
injustice ,
lapse ,
malefaction ,
malfeasance ,
malum ,
minor wrong ,
misdeed ,
misdemeanor ,
misfeasance ,
mortal sin ,
nonfeasance ,
offense ,
omission ,
outrage ,
peccadillo ,
peccancy ,
sin ,
sin of commission ,
sin of omission ,
sinful act ,
slip ,
tort ,
transgression ,
trespass ,
trip ,
unutterable sin ,
venial sin ,
violation ,
wrong ,
wrongdoing
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