Constructive crime
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Where, by a strained construction of a penal statute, it is made to include an act not otherwise punishable, it is said to be a "constructive crime," that is, one built up by the court with the aid of inference and implication.
Ex parte McNulty, 77 Cal. 164, 19 Pac. 237, 11 Am. St. Ren. 257.