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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

number of sexual offences under the law of Scotland. General interpretation Consent As to consent, see sections 12 to 15 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act...

for assistance or summoning an ambulance. He was convicted of the common law offence of willful misconduct in public office. Widgery CJ said: The allegation...

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...

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

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

nude protests. Outraging public decency is a common law offence in England and Wales. It is a broader offence than indecent exposure, but can only be committed...

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

blasphemy was an offence in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, and San Marino. The common law offences of blasphemy...

an offence of aggravated assault in some common law-based jurisdictions. It is characterised as a sex crime and has significant overlap with offences referred...

dictionary. In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of one or more persons in...