Definitions for penal code
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1. penal codenoun

   the legal code governing crimes and their punishment

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1. penal code

   A criminal code (or penal code) is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal code will contain offences that are recognised in the jurisdiction, penalties that might be imposed for these offences, and some general provisions (such as definitions and prohibitions on retroactive prosecution).Criminal codes are relatively common in civil law jurisdictions, which tend to build legal systems around codes and principles which are relatively abstract and apply them on a case-by-case basis. Conversely they are not as common in common law jurisdictions. The proposed introduction of a criminal code in England and Wales was a significant project of the Law Commission from 1968 to 2008. Due to the strong tradition of legal precedent in the jurisdiction and consequently the large number of binding legal judgements and ambiguous 'common law offences', as well as the often inconsistent nature of English law, the creation of a satisfactory code became very difficult. The project was officially abandoned in 2008 although as of 2009 it has been revived.A statutory Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee for Irish criminal law met from 2007 to 2010 and its Draft Criminal Code and Commentary was published in 2011.In the United States, a Model Penal Code exists which is not itself law but which provides the basis for the criminal law of many states. Individual states often choose to make use of criminal codes which are often based, to a varying extent on the model code. Title 18 of the United States Code is the criminal code for federal crimes. However, Title 18 does not contain many of the general provisions concerning criminal law that are found in the criminal codes of many so-called "civil law" countries. Criminal codes are generally supported for their introduction of consistency to legal systems and for making the criminal law more accessible to laypeople. A code may help avoid a chilling effect where legislation and case law appears to be either inaccessible or beyond comprehension to non-lawyers. Alternatively critics have argued that codes are too rigid and that they fail to provide enough flexibility for the law to be effective.

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1. penal code

   A penal code is a set of laws or regulations that govern crimes and their punishments in a specific jurisdiction. It defines various types of offenses, their levels of severity, and the applicable penalties or punishments. These can include minor offenses, major crimes, and everything in between. It serves as a legal guide for law enforcement agencies, courts, and individuals about what constitutes a crime and its punishment.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of penal code in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of penal code in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of penal code in a Sentence

1. Aaron Reyes:

   In the video, someone has taken a pig and holds its rear leg in the air while another animal, a dog, runs to attack it, that, in and of itself, is a penal code animal cruelty violation in the state of California, but the office still needs to investigate the circumstances.

2. Jean Lee:

   North Korea has a very strict and very extensive penal code.

3. Charles Wesley:

   I've been focusing more on learning penal code, criminal code of procedure and the things that will keep me from doing something that I shouldn't be doing because I don't know the law the way I should know it.

4. Mupiganyi Appolinaire:

   We followed the trial carefully and the convicts had been saying that the murder was a planned one, we expected that they would get the heaviest punishment in the Rwanda penal code.

5. Anitha Shenoy:

   If you look at the Indian penal code, there are so many subclassifications. They range from molestation, assault, to rape and penetrative sex. Here( in the bill) it is very loosely worded.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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