statutory offense

What does statutory offense mean?

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

What is another word for statutory offense?

Close synonyms include statutory offence, 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 offense a common word?

statutory 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for statutory offense come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.