criminal code

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)

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