Antonyms for criminal lawcrim·i·nal law

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1. criminal lawnoun

   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

How to use criminal law in a sentence?

1. Vicki Behenna:

   I understand criminal law, but I was not familiar at all with the UCMJ.

2. Alan Dershowitz:

   I will be paraphrasing the successful argument made by( Supreme Court) Justice Benjamin Curtis in the trial of( then-President) Andrew Johnson back in the 1860s, where he argued that the framers intended for impeachable conduct only to be criminal-like conduct or conduct that is prohibited by the criminal law.

3. Michael Garcia:

   The Office of the Attorney General will analyse the documents, presented on a large scale, to violations of criminal law and liability, The OAG will inform the public in due time about further steps.

4. Nguyen Quang:

   They (the police) summon them and find reasons to convict them under those very fuzzy articles of criminal law. It completely violates the law but they use it very regularly.

5. Paul Callan:

   In criminal law, the police can't wire somebody up. They have to give you Miranda warnings if they're going to take a statement from you, however, if a civilian is tape recording you, as was the case here with HBO, that's admissible in court if it's relevant to the crime committed.

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