civil offence

Civil offence was a term of art in military law.

The government proposes to make squatting a criminal act rather than a civil offence.

At that time this was a civil offence; she also threatened to publish the Duke's love letters to her.

Normally, an insult at worst is a civil offence and results in a fine or a defamation suit.

Contempt may be a criminal or civil offence.

It is a misnomer to describe a civil wrong as a "civil offence".

Jougs were used for ecclesiastical as well as civil offences.

This act made both sides of industry equal before the law and the breach of contact a civil offence, rather than criminal.

Breaching such an order is currently a civil offence but the proposals suggest making it a criminal matter and asks what the penalty should be.

This is a civil offence, and may incur a fine or possibly a court injunction to prevent further trespassing.

This is a category-three civil offence that carries the penalty of irreversible neural death.

The government is sponsoring a new environmental law and it is hoped to make smuggling animals a criminal, rather than a civil offence.

Would it be a good idea for Rape to be a civil offence because it is difficult to secure convictions?

Falsifying register books is a civil offence.'

You are thinking of the civil offence of unauthorised transmission of Intellectual Property.

This is not a criminal or civil offence; it exists as a legal oddity created by the Royal Prerogative.

"I forget-some civil offence or other.

Does anyone suggest that Pedophilia should be a civil offence because abused daughters will be reluctant to send their abusing father to prison ?

Leveson points out that not all of the wrongdoing included criminal offences; some of it was "tortious", ie civil offences.

No other criminal or civil offences are under the jurisdiction of the Shariah courts, which have a similar hierarchy to the Civil Courts.

Although tax fraud is a criminal offense in Switzerland, tax evasion is only a civil offence, not requiring banks to notify taxing authorities.

As to the civil offences of ecclesiastics, ecclesiastical jurisdiction carries with it no secular consequences, though the Church is free to punish such offences by ecclesiastical penalties.

I'm quite sure if we said that a father raping his daughter was a civil offence, we might secure more convictions, since daughters are reluctant to inform on their pedophile fathers.

Misuse of private information in English law is a new tort (civil offence) that English courts recognised in the case Campbell v. MGN Ltd.

Copyright laws had existed for a long time as a civil offence, and the fact it is now a criminal offence is down solely to the immense lobbying power of the Media industry.