CRIMB - The Law Mind Legal Dictionary

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Definition

CRIMB does not appear as a recognized legal term in the historical or modern legal lexicon. The entry in Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) associated with this term is a fragment of a definition for CRIMEN FALSI — a Latin term of art referring to crimes involving dishonesty, fraud, or falsehood — with the source text cut off mid-sentence. The fragment concerns the constitutional meaning of "infamous" crimes under the Fifth Amendment and cites an early federal case construing which offenses fall within that category.

No independent legal meaning attaches to "CRIMB" as a standalone term. Researchers encountering this string in a Law Mind source should treat it as a truncation artifact or indexing error pointing to the entry for CRIMEN FALSI.

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Why It Matters in Research

The source material supplied for this entry is a partial transcription of a Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) definition that begins mid-discussion of the Fifth Amendment's "infamous crime" threshold and references U.S. v. Block, Fed. Cas. No. 14,609. That case and that constitutional context belong under CRIMEN FALSI, not under any heading called "CRIMB."

Researchers using historical digitized legal dictionaries should be alert to OCR errors, page-break truncations, and misindexed headwords. The fragment here — discussing crimen falsi and its constitutional implications — is substantively useful but is orphaned from its correct headword. Do not rely on this entry as authority for any proposition; locate the complete CRIMEN FALSI entry in the source dictionary.

If you arrived here through a Law Mind search or index, the term you are researching is almost certainly CRIMEN FALSI. Redirect your research accordingly.

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Historical Dictionary Support

Black's (2nd Ed.) does not define "CRIMB" as a term of art. The text fragment supplied reads as a continuation of the CRIMEN FALSI entry, addressing the constitutional scope of "infamous" crimes under the Fifth Amendment. The fragment references the Revised Statutes of New York, suggesting the full entry went on to compare federal constitutional usage with state statutory definitions — a common organizational move in Black's second edition entries dealing with Latin maxims that had acquired American statutory meaning.

The cited case, U.S. v. Block, Fed. Cas. No. 14,609, 15 N.B.R. 325, is a real federal bankruptcy-era case; its relevance is to the definition of crimen falsi in the context of witness competency and infamy, not to any term called "CRIMB."

No other shelf source in the Law Mind corpus is identified as containing a definition of "CRIMB." The absence is confirmatory: this is not a recognized legal term.

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Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) • 1910

“Infamous,” as used in the fifth amendment to the United States constitution, in reference to crimes, includes those only of the class called “crimen falsi,” which both involve the charge of falsehood, and inay also injuriously affect the ublic administration of justice by introducing alsehood and fraud. U. S. v. Block, 15 N. B. R. 325, Fed. Cas. No. 14,609. By the Revised Statutes of New York the term “infamous crime,” when used in any statute, is directed to be construed as including every offense pun-. ishable with death or by imuvrisonment in a state-prison, and no other. 2 Rey. St. (p. 702, 31,) p. 587. § 32.—Quasi crimes. This term embraces all offenses not crimes or misdemeanors, but that are in the nature of crimes,—a class of offenses against the public which have not been declared crimes. but wrongs against the peneral or local public which it is proper should be repressed or punished by forfeitures and penalties. This would embrace all qui tam actions and forfeitures imposed for the neglect or violation of a public duty. A quasi crime would not embrace an indictable offense. whatever might be its grade, but simply forfeitures for a wrong done to the public. whether voluntary or involuntary, where a penalty is given, whether recoverable by criminal or civil process. Wiggins v. Chicago, 68 Ill. 375.—Statutory crimes. Those created by statutes, ax distinguished from such as are known to, or cognizable by, the common law.