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felony,n.1. A serious crime usu. punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death. • Examples include burglary, arson, rape, and murder. — Also termed major crime; serious crime. Cf. MISDEMEANOR. [Cases: Criminal Law 27. C.J.S. Criminal Law §§ 9–12.] “Felony, in the general acceptation of our English law, comprizes every species of…

felon of oneself.See SUICIDE(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

felonious restraint. 1. The offense of knowingly and unlawfully restraining a person under circumstances that expose the person to serious bodily harm. Model Penal Code § 212.2(a).2. The offense of holding a person in involuntary servitude. Model Penal Code § 212.2(b).[Blacks Law 8th]

felonious intent.See criminal intent under INTENT(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

felony-de-se. See SUICIDE(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

felonious (f<<schwa>>-loh-nee-<<schwa>>s), adj.1. Of, relating to, or involving a felony. 2. Constituting or having the character of a felony. 3. Proceeding from an evil heart or purpose; malicious; villainous. 4. Wrongful; (of an act) done without excuse or color of right.[Blacks Law 8th]

felonia (f<<schwa>>-loh-nee-<<schwa>>). [Latin “felony”] Hist. An offense that results in a vassal’s forfeiting his fee. “The attempt to derive felonia from fel ‘poison’ is merely a folk etymology which came into vogue when ‘felony’ meant a serious crime, and differed from treason. The word was well established in Feudal Law as the characteristic offense against…

felon-de-se. See SUICIDE(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

felon,n. A person who has been convicted of a felony. — Also termed (redundantly) convicted felon.[Blacks Law 8th]

felo-de-se (fee-loh orfel-oh dee see), n. See SUICIDE(2). “ ‘Felo de se,’ or felon of himself is freely spoken of by the early writers as self-murder. Hence one who killed himself before he arrived at the age of discretion or while he was non compos mentis, was not a felo de se, or suicide…. [B]y…