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单词 criminal law
释义
criminal law
noun[U]
uk
/ˌkrɪm.ɪ.nəl ˈlɔː/us
/ˌkrɪm.ɪ.nəl ˈlɑː/
thepartof thelegalsystemthatrelatestopunishingpeoplewhobreakthelaw
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(Definition ofcriminal lawfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • By the criminal law a man could not be punished for the acts of another.
  • Here his chief work was the codification of the criminal law, which he carried out with great ability, and by which he wrote his name on the history of the empire.
  • In no two countries is the criminal law the same, and an act which is perfectly harmless when committed in one part of Europe, is considered in another as a contravention of the law.
  • We may pause a moment to glance at the provisions made by the criminal law for protecting women.
  • Your proposition is true only to the extent that the criminal law is invoked to protect property rights—and not life and liberty.

criminal law| Business English

criminal law
noun[U]
LAW
uk
us
thepartof thelegalsystemwhichrelatestopunishingpeoplewho havecommittedacriminalact:
Investigation ofbreachesof thecriminallawisgenerallytheresponsibilityof thepolice.
Compare
civil law

criminal lawyer

noun[C]
If you needadviceon acriminallawissue, you canfindacriminallawyerby usingourwebsite.
(Definition ofcriminal lawfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcriminal law

criminal law
In contrast to tax law, thecriminallawis there to prescribe modes of conduct that are not permissible.
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That issue is whether and why thecriminallawis different from other legal techniques to influence behavior.
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Another strand of argument supports this analysis: one concerning the censuring role of thecriminallaw.
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This constraint is particularly apposite to thecriminallaw.
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I do not mean to suggest that allcriminallawreadily fits the injunction model.
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The absence of middle-class families from my sample reflects an equally longstanding rejection of recourse tocriminallawin middle-class legal cultures.
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Such intent relates to the act which is a violation of thecriminallaw, which does not require the specific intent to violate the law.
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In contemporarycriminallawthe personality of the perpetrator is being considered important; it is not the act but the actor which is given priority.
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In each instance, housemaids and footmen threaten to surprise and disclose their employers' violations of social code andcriminallaw.
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Although the state might decide to criminalize hate speech, hate speech might be regulated without invoking thecriminallaw.
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And if necessary thecriminallawmust be invoked in the case of nonobservance of regulation.
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This view of punishment is distinct from the enlightened or scientific view that is often associated with the early nineteenth-centurycriminallawreformers.
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Further, there may be reasons to accept limited judicial discretion to reinterpret the scope of thecriminallawto meet unanticipated circumstances.
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They also stress the responsibilities of legislators more broadly than their capacity to makecriminallaw.
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But if we did, that would be most unlike what we do in thecriminallawordinarily.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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