criminal code

English

Noun

criminal code (plural criminal codes)

(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)

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

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