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Penal code   /pˈinəl koʊd/   Listen
adjective
Penal  adj.  Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as:
(a)
Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
(b)
Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penal act or offense.
(c)
Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire."
Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment.
Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibiting certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them.
Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. (Great Brit.)
Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Penal code" Quotes from Famous Books



... Every type was gathered, from the sound, reasonable accumulator of wealth to the "hold-up," the gambler, the fugitive from the law. It was said of Leaping Horse that it only required the "dust" to buy any crime known to the penal code. And here, here at the Elysian Fields, on any night in the week, could be found the man or woman to perpetrate it ...
— The Triumph of John Kars - A Story of the Yukon • Ridgwell Cullum
... except the Iron Chancellor. Infuriated by his own failure and unwilling to confess defeat, he pleaded once more, in 1890, for the reenactment of the anti-socialist law and, indeed, that it should be made a permanent part of the penal code of the Empire. He even sought further powers and asked the Reichstag to give him a law that would enable him to expel not only from districts proclaimed to be in a state of siege, but from Germany altogether, ...
— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter


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