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REGULATORY OFFENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does regulatory offence mean?
• REGULATORY OFFENCE (noun)
The noun REGULATORY OFFENCE has 1 sense:
1. crimes created by statutes and not by common law
Familiarity information: REGULATORY OFFENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("regulatory 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 "regulatory 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)
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