Examples in English Law
A number of United Kingdom Statutes refer to particular crimes as being high misdemeanors:
- Discharging or aiming firearms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm the Sovereign
- Where a Roman Catholic advises the Crown on the appointment to offices of the Established Church
- Where a Jew advises the Crown on the appointment to offices of the Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland
Blackstone describes a number of offences as being high misdemeanors, for example:
- treasonable words
- receiving stolen goods
- prison break
- maladministration of high office
- firing of one's house in a town
A number of statutory references to high misdemeanors have subsequently been repealed, including:
- The conviction of a Returning officer for corrupt practices during an election to the Parliament of Ireland
Read more about this topic: High Misdemeanor
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