Definition of "offences" []

• Plural form of offence. (noun)

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• ""I interpret the words, 'that the defendant _for his offences_ aforesaid, be fined and imprisoned,' in their plain literal sense, to mean _such offences as are set out in the counts of the indictment which are free from objection, and of which the defendant is shown by proper findings on the record to have been guilty_ -- that is in effect the offences contained in the fifth and eighth, and all the subsequent counts."
• "I still think that incremental sentences for repeat offences is the only way to go. on June 5, 2009 at 7: 36 pm Buster"
• "Though the scale of their offences is not by any means on the scale of the 1994 genocide, they do nevertheless involve many thousands of victims."