Legal Definition and Related Resources of Offense

Meaning of Offense

A crime or violation of a statute , generally entailing punitive consequences. The word is defined in 18 U.S.C. §3152(2) as follows: The term offense means any criminal offense, other than an offense triable by court martial, military commission , provost court, or other military tribunal , which is in violation of an A ct of Congress and is triable in any court established by A ct of Congress.

Offense Alternative Definition

In criminal law. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands. In this sense, it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor; but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty. 1 Chit. Prac. 14.

Synonyms of Offense

noun

aggression
assault
attack
breach
breach of the law
breaking of the law
crime
criminal act
criminal deed
criminality
delict
delictum
delinquency
disobedience
encroachment
evil behavior
evil deed
failure
felony
illegal act
illegal conduct
illegality
impropriety
infraction
infringement
injury
inobservance
lawbreaking
lawlessness
malefaction
malfeasance
malpractice
malversation
misconduct
misdeed
misdemeanor
misdoing
misfeasance
misprision
noncompliance
nonobservance
offensio
official misconduct
omission
outrage
pecability
peccatum
transgression
umbrage
unlawful act
unrighteousness
violation
violation of law
violation of orders
wrong
wrongdoing
wrongfulness Associated Concepts: bailable offense
capital offense
charged with an offense
compound offense
continuing offense
degree of offense
grave offense
lesser offense
minor offense
offense against public decency
offense at common law
petty offense
prior offense
public offenseforeign phrases: Peccata contra naturam sunt gravissima

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Translate Offense from English to Spanish

Translation of Offense , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Delito and other legal terms is available here.

Delito
Ofensa
Infracción
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English Spanish Translation of Offense

Infracción, delito, acto punible, contravención

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Offense

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late 14c., “hurt, harm, injury, pain,” from Old French ofense “offense, insult, wrong” (13c.) and directly from Latin offensa “an offense, injury, affront, crime,” literally “a striking against,” noun use of femenine past participle of offendere (see offend). Meaning “action of attacking” and “feeling of being hurt” are both first recorded c. 1400. Sense of “breach of the law, transgression” is first recorded late 14c. Sporting sense first recorded 1894.

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