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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

any actual legislation: common law offences. The courts used the concept of malum in se to develop various common law offences. As a sociological concept...

In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable...