Usually means: Legal system governing criminal conduct.
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  1. criminal code: Collins English Dictionary
  2. criminal code: Wiktionary
  3. criminal code: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. criminal code: Dictionary.com
  5. Criminal Code (Canada), Criminal Code, Criminal code, The Criminal Code: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (criminal code)

▸ noun:  (law) A document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law.

Similar:
code, criminal law, civil code, corpus juris, legal code, lawcode, statutory law, statute book, statute law, article, more...

Opposite:
civil law, civil code, common law

Phrases:
An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, Criminal Code of Russia, more...

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Similar:
code, criminal law, civil code, corpus juris, legal code, lawcode, statutory law, statute book, statute law, article, more...

Opposite:
civil law, civil code, common law

Phrases:
An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, Criminal Code of Russia, more...



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