Common law offences are crimes under English criminal law, the related criminal law of some Commonwealth countries, and under some U.S. state laws. They...

Common assault is an offence in English law. It is committed by a person who causes another person to apprehend the immediate use of unlawful violence...

of Obsolete Offences Act 1969. In Canada, barratry, alongside all common law offences except contempt of court and contempt of Parliament, was abolished...

The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008 and Scotland in 2024. Equivalent laws remain...

the Commentaries on the Laws of England, Blackstone outlines the offence: Lastly, a common scold, communis rixatrix, (for our law-latin confines it to the...

A summary offence or petty offence is a violation in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury...

criminal law, an inchoate offence is an offence relating to a criminal act which has not, or not yet, been committed. The main inchoate offences are attempting...

assault causing bodily harm. Battery is a common law offence within England and Wales. As with the majority of offences in the UK, it has two elements: Actus...

morals is an offence under the common law of England and Wales. Conspiracy to outrage public decency is an offence under the common law of England and...

hybrid offence, dual offence, Crown option offence, dual procedure offence, offence triable either way, or wobbler is one of the special class offences in...