Synonyms for penal code
pe·nal code

Princeton's WordNet

1. penal codenoun

   the legal code governing crimes and their punishment

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1. • Law
   • Legal Code

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1. Leila Ahsan:

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

2. Mupiganyi Appolinaire:

   We followed the trial carefully and the convicts had been saying that the murder was a planned one, we expected that they would get the heaviest punishment in the Rwanda penal code.

3. 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.

4. Aaron Reyes:

   In the video, someone has taken a pig and holds its rear leg in the air while another animal, a dog, runs to attack it, that, in and of itself, is a penal code animal cruelty violation in the state of California, but the office still needs to investigate the circumstances.

5. Chrispine Sibande:

   The 1861 law, under section 243 of the penal code, says abortion can only be performed by a skilled person through operation. Now you and me would ask' who is this skilled person' ? So the new law clarifies that.