First degree and second degree murder are not separate offences. (criminalnotebook.ca)
Russell J. cited a number of cases for the proposition that a continuing offence «requires a succession or repetition of separate offences of the same character or kind». (thelitigator.ca)
When analysts at the Congressional Research Service tried to count the number of separate offences on the books, they were forced to give up, exhausted... (slaw.ca)