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penal code

noun

, Law.
  1. the aggregate of statutory enactments dealing with crimes and their punishment.


penal code

noun

  1. the codified body of the laws in any legal system that relate to crime and its punishment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of penal code1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

This sum, outlined in the penal code, is double for a male than it is for a female.

And in just one night, we committed at least two offenses under his newly implemented penal code.

Who then could be tried as a war criminal under the 1871 penal code?

The new draft Islamic Penal Code criminalises same-sex relations between consenting adults.

This provision is, however, absent from the Penal Code Iran approved in 2012, though apparently not yet signed into law.

A large number of people are completely ignorant of our penal code in these relationships.

In the sessions of 1869 and 1870 it established a supreme tribunal of commerce, sitting in Leipzig, and passed a new penal code.

Year after year, men talked of the severity of the penal code, and struggled against it in vain.

Such a sanguinary penal code of laws as our's would really disgrace a nation of savages!

However, the penal code appeared to him an absurd production devoid of principles.

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