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Definition of Statutory offence
1. Noun. Crimes created by statutes and not by common law.
Generic synonyms: Crime, Criminal Offence, Criminal Offense, Law-breaking, Offence, Offense
Specialized synonyms: Sex Crime, Sex Offense, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Bigamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statutory Offence
Literary usage of Statutory offence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts by Francis Wharton (1857)
"Conclusion for a statutory offence. (32) Connecticut. Conclusion. (33) Connecticut.
... Conclusion for statutory offence. (57) North Carolina. ..."
2. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use Both of the Courts by Francis Wharton (1871)
"Conclusion for a statutory offence. (22) New Hampshire. Commencement. (23) New
Hampshire. ... Conclusion for statutory offence. (38) New York. Commencement. ..."
3. A Treatise on Criminal Law by Francis Wharton, William Draper Lewis (1896)
"... but it was not round nor would it pass in the condition in which it then was,
the judges held that the statutory offence was incomplete.1 Where, also, ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"statutory offence,. IV. Who are Officers, 586. 1. /// General, 586. V. Color of
Office, 588. 2. Officers de Facto, 587. VII. What constitutes Offence ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure: Or, Pleading, Evidence, and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1872)
"In the work on the Criminal Law, cheats at common law, and the statutory offence
of obtaining goods by false pretences, were, for the sake of perspicuity, ..."
6. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"Complaint — Relevancy—statutory offence—Provoking to Breach of the Peace ...
A complaint charging a statutory offence must specify the sections which ..."
7. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"The statutory offence may le committed although the girl consented, and a charge
of assault is therefore not included in the charge of the statutory offence ..."
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