criminal code

English

Noun

criminal code (plural criminal codes)

1. (law) A document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.

Synonyms

• penal code

Related terms

• civil code

Translations

document which compiles a particular jurisdiction's criminal law

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: наказателен кодекс m (nakazatelen kodeks)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刑事法典 (xíngshìfǎdiǎn)

• Danish: straffelov c
• Finnish: rikoslaki (fi)
• French: code pénal (fr) m
• Greek: ποινικός κώδικας m (poinikós kódikas)
• Hungarian: büntető törvénykönyv (hu)
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• Japanese: 刑法典 (keihōten)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: straffelov (no) m

  Nynorsk: straffelov f or m

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: уголо́вный ко́декс m (ugolóvnyj kódɛks)
• Spanish: código penal m
• Tagalog: pamparusang kabatasan

Further reading

• criminal code on Wikipedia.Wikipedia