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STATUTORY OFFENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does statutory offense mean? 

STATUTORY OFFENSE (noun)
  The noun STATUTORY OFFENSE has 1 sense:

1. crimes created by statutes and not by common lawplay

  Familiarity information: STATUTORY OFFENSE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STATUTORY OFFENSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Crimes created by statutes and not by common law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

regulatory offence; regulatory offense; statutory offence; statutory offense

Hypernyms ("statutory offense" 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 offense"):

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)


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