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French law and systems based thereon or having a common origin a distinction is drawn between crime (verbrechen), delft (vergehen) and contravention . The English term misdemeanour roughly corresponds to the two classes of delft and contravention but includes some offences which would be qualified as " crime." In the criminal code of Queensland the term " misdemeanour " is retained, while _that of " felony " is abolished; and offences are classified as crimes, misdemeanours and simple offences, the two former punishable on indictment, the latter on summary conviction only; the more serious offences described in English law as misdemeanours are in that code described as crimes (e.g. perjury) . In the United States the English common law as to misdemeanour is generally followed,but in New York and other states a statutory distinction has been made between misdemeanour and felony by defining the latter as a crime punishable by death or by imprisonment in a state prison . (W . F .