Criminal-code Definition

Criminal-code Sentence Examples

• Justice is administered from a written civil and criminal code.

• The Civil Code, issued 1852, the Criminal Code in 1869 and the Revised Statutes in 1879, have several times been amended and published in new editions.

• Eventually the civil code with some changes was adopted in twenty-four states, and the criminal code in eighteen, and the whole formed a basis of the reform in procedure in England and several of her colonies.

• During the session of 1830 the chambers adopted a criminal code in which punishment by death for political offences was abolished.

• Important reforms were now introduced, including the separation of the judicial and executive powers and the drawing up of a new criminal code.