regulatory offense

1. 1.

   crimes created by statutes and not by common law

   Synonymsstatutory offensestatutory offenceregulatory offence

   Broadercrime

   Narrowersexual assaultbigamy

Questions about regulatory offense

What does regulatory offense mean?

regulatory offense means "crimes created by statutes and not by common law".

What is another word for regulatory offense?

Close synonyms include statutory offense, statutory offence, regulatory offence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is regulatory offense a common word?

regulatory offense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.