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criminal code

noun

Law.
  1. the aggregate of statutory enactments pertaining to criminal offenses.
  2. a systematic and integrated statement of the rules and principles pertaining to criminal offenses.


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Origin of criminal code1

First recorded in 1780–90
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Thailand's lese-majeste law has been in place since the creation of the country's first criminal code in 1908, although the penalty was toughened in 1976.

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On Wednesday, Health Canada defended the procedure, saying that the criminal code sets out "strict eligibility" criteria.

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In certain prison camps, up to 80% of residents are confined under Article 228 of the Criminal Code – which bans certain narcotics – nicknamed “the peoples’ statute,” as more citizens are incarcerated for it than any other, many serving over ten year stints for first-time offenses.

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It was supposed to be the city’s new criminal code, revised in a painstaking 16-year process for the first time in a century, then passed by the council.

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Her empire began to unravel in 2004, when she was convicted of obstruction of justice charges in a heavily publicized trial — dubbed a “b— hunt” — that seemed to be as much about her personality as the criminal code.

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