statutory offence

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   crimes created by statutes and not by common law

   Synonymsstatutory offenseregulatory offenseregulatory offence

   Broadercrime

   Narrowersexual assaultbigamy

Questions about statutory offence

What does statutory offence mean?

statutory offence means "crimes created by statutes and not by common law".

What is another word for statutory offence?

Close synonyms include statutory offense, regulatory offense, 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 statutory offence a common word?

statutory offence 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.