Antonyms for criminal lawcrim·i·nal law

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Legal Code

Princeton's WordNet

1. criminal lawnoun

   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

How to use criminal law in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Wicha Mahakun:

   The accused colluded to violate criminal law. The deal never happened. There was no government-to-government deal, the NACC has resolved to charge former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and Poom Sarapol, former deputy commerce minister, a total of 21 ministers and private sector employees.

3. Catherine Hanssens:

   If somebody picks up a chair with the intent of bashing your head in, that should be a crime. Do we need a chair-specific criminal law ? I don't think so.

4. 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.

5. Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten:

   While Pasquotank County District Attorney concluded that no criminal law was violated, this was a terrible and tragic outcome, and we could do better.

How to pronounce criminal law?

How to say criminal law in sign language?