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criminal code
noun
- the aggregate of statutory enactments pertaining to criminal offenses.
- a systematic and integrated statement of the rules and principles pertaining to criminal offenses.
Word History and Origins
Origin of criminal code1
Example Sentences
Tough-on-crime lawmakers rewrote the state’s criminal code to turn some misdemeanors into felonies.
By 2008, he’d served as chair of the influential Criminal Law Advisory Commission for a decade, which advises the Legislature on changes to the state’s criminal code.
Only that, as you might expect, the U.S. Criminal Code, and a similar collection of Illinois criminal statutes are nearby.
Traditionally, these are issues of state and local government, the criminal code.
Liu was convicted under Section 105 of the criminal code, or “incitement to subvert state power.”
The criminal code, the surest indication of the moral condition of the community, was revised.
The result was that, in 1495, Maximilian I established a new criminal code, materially weakening the secret tribunals.
He had only, he thought, to convert a few members of parliament to gain the acceptance for a rational criminal code.
Even in the criminal code a prisoner is presumed to be innocent until he is found guilty.
We gave an account of the civil and criminal code of Dahomey in the chapter on that empire.
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