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Noun: statutory offense
Usage: US (elsewhere: statutory offence)
  1. Crimes created by statutes and not by common law
    - statutory offence [Brit, Cdn], regulatory offense [US], regulatory offence [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: statutory offenses

Type of: crime, criminal offence [Brit, Cdn], criminal offense [US], law-breaking

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