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ACCESSORY .) Under See also:

French See also:law and systems based thereon or having a See also:common origin a distinction is See also:drawn between See also:crime (verbrechen), See also:delft (vergehen) and contravention. The See also:English See also:term See also:misdemeanour roughly corresponds to the two classes of delft and contravention but includes some offences which would be qualified as " crime." In the criminal See also:code of See also:Queensland the term " misdemeanour " is retained, while _that of " See also:felony " is abolished; and offences are classified as crimes, misdemeanours and See also:simple offences, the two former punishable on See also:indictment, the latter on See also:summary conviction only; the more serious offences described in English law as misdemeanours are in that code described as crimes (e.g. See also:perjury). In the See also:United States the English common law as to misdemeanour is generally followed,but in New See also:York and other states a statutory distinction has been made between misdemeanour and felony by defining the latter as a crime punishable by See also:death or by imprisonment in a See also:state See also:prison. (W. F.

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