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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and several US and Australian states, no longer have a traditional common law offence of rape, which always required that sexual penetration had occurred...

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...

As to this provision, see pages 84 and 85 of the Law Commission's report. The common law offence of riot was abolished for England and Wales on 1 April...

The law of Northern Ireland is the legal system of statute and common law operating in Northern Ireland since the partition of Ireland established Northern...

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

At law, cheating is a specific criminal offence relating to property. Historically, to cheat was to commit a misdemeanour at common law. However, in most...

an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law (also...

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

negligent with regard to fire safety. In British law, arson was a common law offence (except for the offence of arson in royal dockyards) dealing with the...

offence committed when a person prevents justice from being served on themselves or on another party. In England and Wales it is a common law offence...

court held that "capital murder" was a new offence, not merely a subtype of the existing common law offence of murder; and that the Garda was acting "in...

intent (and derivative offences) These crimes are usually grouped together in common law countries as a legacy of the Offences against the Person Act...

prosecutable under sedition laws vary by jurisdiction. In the later Roman Republic, seditio (lit. 'going apart') referred to the offence of collective disobedience...

Murder is an offence under the common law legal system of England and Wales. It is considered the most serious form of homicide, in which one person kills...

defined in terms of the common law offence. Assault with intent to resist arrest This offence is created by section 38 of the Offences against the Person Act...

tried for offences that are not explicitly provided for in legislation, abolishing offences at common law. Notably, the common law offence of contempt...

The offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in English common law were carried over to the Australian colonies and "received" into state law following...

Blasphemous libel was originally an offence under the common law of England. Today, it is an offence under the common law of Northern Ireland, but has been...

an offence otherwise than under section 5 of the Act. This means that: The common law offence of compounding treason is preserved. The common law offence...

felony was an offence under the common law of England and was classified as a misdemeanour. It consisted of a prosecutor or victim of an offence accepting...

Cognisable offence and non-cognisable offence are classifications of crime used in the legal system of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Non-cognisable...