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synonyms for penal codes

  • Code Napoleon
  • civil code
  • penal code
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How to use penal codes in a sentence

The oldest penal codes were very strongly inclined to impose death penalties.
ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGYWILHELM WUNDT
And here reveals itself, in all its force, another notorious difficulty with which the reformer of penal codes has to contend.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 58, NUMBER 358, AUGUST 1845VARIOUS
Our conversation turned on the difference between the penal codes of France and England.
TRAVELS IN FRANCE DURING THE YEARS 1814-1815ARCHIBALD ALISON
I cannot help thinking that the menace of hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
LIFE OF LORD BYRON, VOL. 6 (OF 6)THOMAS MOORE
Given such men, penal codes will interest only the antiquarian.
PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEMWILL DURANT
Since the French Revolution the severity of the penal codes has been much modified.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IIIJOHN LORD
So central is it, that it is now acknowledged as such in all the penal codes of civilized countries.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPINOZABARUCH DE SPINOZA
Yet our penal codes are confessedly based on the idea of punishment and retribution.
APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, FEBRUARY 1900VARIOUS
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