statutory offense

statutory offense
   American
   the rape of a female
   Legal jargon. A statutory rape is copulation with a female below an age chosen by law rather than by her physical development — see jail bait. Although over the centuries females, better fed and less worked, have tended to achieve sexual maturity at ever younger ages, the statutory age of consent has risen from 10 years in medieval times to 15 or 16 in most western countries today.

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  • statutory offense — Law. a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law. Also called statutory crime. [1930 35] * * * …   Universalium

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  • statutory crime. — See statutory offense. * * * …   Universalium

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