Offense

In criminal law. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands. In this sense, it is nearly synonymous with "crime." In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with "misdemeanor;" but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.

1 Chit. Prac. 14.

OFFER„ The word offer is frequently used by courts and text writers as synonymous with "tender," and it may properly be so used with reference to articles capable of manual delivery and actually produced. But with respect to heavy articles of merchandise, situated at a distance from the place to which they must be transported if restored to the vendor, the phrase "offer to return" is more commonly or aptly applied to express a willingness, or to make a proposal, to rescind the contract and return the goods.

156 111. App. 476.