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Definition of Offenses
1. offense [n] - See also: offense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offenses
Literary usage of Offenses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"We also agree that two separate and distinct offenses cannot be joined in ...
But we do not think the indictment in the present case charges two offenses. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"offenses especially affecting individuals, among which are included (1) offenses
against the persons of individuals, (2) offenses against their property, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It supplements the first statute by including as offenses acts there omitted
though equally connected as those designated with the disposal of goods ..."
4. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud, Rapelje Howell (1912)
"Public and Private offenses. § 353. offenses committed by One Family against ...
Public and Private offenses.1 — The primitive law knew scarcely any public ..."
5. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1913)
"The division of the criminal jurisdictions and authorities corresponds to the
division of offenses into three groups, " crimes," " delicts," and ..."
6. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"offenses Generally, Since the earliest agreements with England of 1794 and 1842,
and with France of 1843 and 1845, there has been a constant and natural ..."
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