Meanings of penal law in inglés

The proposed law, they said, was a retrospective penal law, and therefore objectionable.

If temptation were rare, a penal law might be deemed unnecessary.

Belgian penal law still exists and is administered by Belgians.

This is not a case for the penal law.

Thereafter, like Henry Fielding, or Gilbert A'Beckett, he divided his days between penal law and polite literature.

There no moral or religions feelings interpose to assist or to supply the deficiencies of the penal law.

While in Ireland, under penal law, intermarriage between Catholics and Protestants was outlawed in order to suppress "popery".

Practical men declare that ''the prohibitive penal law ought to be regarded as the first and most important of preventive laws.''

At present there is no methodical standard for a psychological investigation, although such an investigation was introduced into the scope of classic penal law.

Four of the five accusers were officially under age according to Afghan penal law, aged 14, 14, 16 and 17, with the fifth aged 18.

Penal laws were frequently updated in an effort to bring more order.

As a matter of fact, these penal laws were very fitfully enforced.

There was no necessity to put the penal laws in execution.

The old penal laws and the new ones were enforced with unusual severity.

Unfazed, our visiting scholar began a lesson on the penal laws.

Offences against the penal laws are of course punished by imprisonment.