criminal law
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- noun
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəl lɔ/
- Specialized
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derecho penal
- Many law students specialize in criminal law to prepare for a career in defending clients against serious charges.
- international criminal law
- civil and criminal law
- criminal law enforcement
Obviously innocence as proven by a court of criminal law and then not by a court of civil law later.
- Obviously innocence as proven by a court of criminal law and then not by a court of civil law later.
- In each country, there are raging debates about the definitions of Islamic law and the role for doubt or discretion in criminal law.
- It can put you in legal peril, and that can include running afoul of criminal laws.
- Because there was nobody who had teaching criminal law from the perspective of somebody who actually was in court litigated.
- So like that's the like substantive law, like on the books, like criminal law and like regulatory law.
Examples
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Her office was in Chicago, but she had a national practice in criminal law.
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There is actually significant debate as to the proper scope of victimhood in criminal law.
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Federal criminal law is not related to common law.
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The question is, when should the criminal law come in?
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Now, would you please describe for us the changes in criminal law?
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If it got around that I did that, what kind of criminal law practice do you think I'd have?
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Many states addressed this concern for public virtue in their civil and criminal laws.
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Let's just suppose for the sake of argument that the judge or the jury in criminal law aims at a verdict which is just.
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Many American leaders feel estranged from recent developments in international humanitarian and criminal law.
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Moreover, this approach would be consistent with traditional tort and criminal law principles.
Academic text (2017)
Antonyms
How Governmental
- Formal
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- Specialized
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5.3
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'criminal law' is a direct adjective+noun composition: 'criminal' (relating to crime) modifies 'law', so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes laws concerning crime. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English adjective-noun semantics, making it transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Criminal law puts together criminal (a person who breaks rules) and law (the rules a community follows). Long ago, when someone harmed others, a town would use special rules to judge and punish them, so today criminal law means the set of rules about 'crime' and 'punishment'.