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Fel"ony
(), n.; pl. Felonies (). [OE. felonie cruelty, OF. felonie, F. flonie treachery, malice. See Felon, n.]
1. (Feudal Law) An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
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.
3. A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
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
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