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pe·nal code

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  1. penal codenoun

    the legal code governing crimes and their punishment

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  1. Adam Rabati:

    We are running the risk of being accused of fornication punishable under the penal code.

  2. 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.

  3. Jean Lee:

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

  4. 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.

  5. Leila Ahsan:

    He has been jailed over a year and ... keeping him in jail is illegal based on Iran's new penal code.


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