💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Criminal code"
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| Word | Definition |
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| codenoun | (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode. |
| criminal lawnoun | (law) The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment. |
| civil codenoun | (law) A systematic collection of laws addressing dealings between private parties, such as business contracts and negligence lawsuits. |
| corpus jurisnoun | The entire body of laws of a jurisdiction or of a particular court. |
| legal codenoun | (law) All the official laws of a country or state |
| lawcodenoun | (law) A body of law that is sanctioned by legislation. |
| statutory lawnoun | (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body. |
| statute booknoun | (informal, law) All the statutes and laws of a given jurisdiction, whether or not listed in an actual book. |
| statute lawnoun | (law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law. |
| articlenoun | A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc. |
| constitutionnoun | (government) The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions. |
| common lawnoun | (law) Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law). |
| statutes at largenoun | Published collections or series of legislative acts, in certain jurisdictions. |
| civil lawnoun | (law) The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; |
| law of the landnoun | (law) A particular law or the complete set of laws currently in effect within a jurisdiction, especially with emphasis on the official and authoritative nature of such law. |
| penal lawnoun | (law) Criminal law. |
| hybrid offencenoun | (law) A crime in common-law jurisdictions that may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment. |
| basic lawnoun | A law or set of laws given to have constitutional powers and effect: a constitution. |
| informationnoun | Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. |
| book lawnoun | (law, dated) Written law, statute law. |
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