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Excerpt from Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 3
Wron G s are divifible into two forts or fpecies private wrongs, and puhlic wrongs. The former are an infringement or privation of the private or civil rights belonging to individuals, confidered as individuals 5 and are thereupon frequently termed Civil injuries: the latter are a breach and violation. Of public rights and duties, which affeét the whole community, confider ed as a community; and are diitinguifhed by the harlher appel lation of crimes and mgfilemefnors. To invefiigate the firft of thefe fpecies of wrongs, with their legal remedies, will. Be our em ployment in the prefent book 3 and the other fpecres Will be re ferved, till the next or concluding volume.
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