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Penal code

noun

The legal code governing crimes and their punishment.

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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

Words linked to "Penal code" : jurisprudence, law, legal code