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STATUTORY OFFENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Crimes created by statutes and not by common law
Synonyms:
regulatory offence; regulatory offense; statutory offence; statutory offense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("statutory offence" is a kind of...):
crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "statutory offence"):
sex crime; sex offense; sexual abuse; sexual assault (a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat)
bigamy (the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred)
