offence against the law

Simony is an offence against the law of the church.

"It is a criminal offence against the laws of the Empire.

By definition these are, without exception, social deviations and offences against the law of this country.

"Offence against the laws of God and of the realm, and must be pursued with all rigour."

Melanesian custom tends to see crime as an offence against the victim and their family and community, more than an offence against the law.

Granted that prostitution was not itself an offence against the law, soliciting was, and it was becoming more open and more persistent.

Piracies and crimes committed on the high seas or in the air; offences against the law of nations committed on land or the high seas or in the air.

This new post-Watergate, style of pardoning by proclamation (i.e., the proclaiming of a subject to be un-chargeable for offences against the law, notwithstanding that no offences have as yet been charged) is very controversial.

It was used in the case of Nixon's pardon by Gerald Ford, not the forgiving of the perpetration of offences against the law; whose nature, scope and consequences had been fully revealed, by a dispassionate judicial examination.

As a matter of fact, the probability is that his offence against the laws of his country had long ago been forgotten, and that he would have been allowed to pass unmolested anywhere except in France; but he could not be got to see this.

The repeated efforts of the Crown to check the powers of the palatinate bishops culminated in 1536 in the Act of Resumption, which deprived the bishop of the power to pardon offences against the law or to appoint judicial officers.

In brief and pregnant sentences, producing the dead snake in proof of his argument, he pointed out the enormity of the offence against the laws of the Amasuka wherewith the prisoner was charged, demanding that the man who had killed the house of his ancestral spirit should instantly be put to death.