Originally Scottish. Of a crime: established or regulated by statute, as opposed to common law or natural law. Cf. common law, n. 1a.

Law. Of a criminal act: compounded by (an element of) a further offence, thereby incurring a stricter penalty; exacerbated in force or violence…

figurative. Applied to other crimes committed between persons nearly akin. Obsolete.

Law (chiefly U.S.). Designating a crime or felony of the most serious degree of criminality; esp. (of murder) intentional, premeditated; not…

a crime, esp. a non-violent, financial crime, committed by a white-collar worker, typically involving the abuse of his or her professional status or…

transferred. In Law, applied to an offence which renders the offender liable to summary arrest.

Applied to a crime in which there is no injured party. Hence occasionally transferred of the offender.