Sample sentences for CRIMINAL LAW

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Definition

the body of law dealing with crimes against the state (like burglary) and their punishment as contrasted to civil law in which individuals can sue each other

The burden of proof is greater in criminal law than in civil law.

They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

criminal law = the body of law dealing with crimes against the state as contrasted to civil law in which individuals can sue each other

Every country's criminal code is very severe.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
It is an axiom of criminal law, and, consequently, you understand its full application.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
"So," said I, "you consider crime a mere spasmodic disease, which requires no body of criminal law to deal with it?"
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
Atticus Finch rarely took a criminal case; he had no taste for criminal law.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
"Neither we nor our clients are unaware of the provisions of the criminal code," replied Bram.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
I was not in the habit of reading the New Hampshire Criminal Code; going through the sections and subsections was like navigating through molasses.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
You don't know Article Nine of the Criminal Code.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
During the Defiance Campaign, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed.
Nelson Mandela -- I Am Prepared to Die
Figuring out Alabama civil and criminal law while managing death penalty cases in several other states kept me very busy.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
The expert had stated in his column that Advokat Giannini was a respected women's rights lawyer, but that she had absolutely no experience in criminal law outside this case.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
There was a bookcase in the room; I saw from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts of Parliament, and such things.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
If the terminology of our criminal law could be applied to the realm of art, we would have to say that what Mr. Roark delivered constitutes the equivalent of spiritual embezzlement.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
A political condemnation in the United States may, therefore, be looked upon as a preventive measure; and there is no reason for restricting the judges to the exact definitions of criminal law.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity, that without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
The legislators of the United States, who have mitigated almost all the penalties of criminal law, still make rape a capital offence, and no crime is visited with more inexorable severity by public opinion.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
For, of course, as Mr. Griffiths and his son so well knew, in Utica, New York City, Albany (and now that he came to think of it, more particularly in Albany, where were two brothers, Canavan & Canavan, most able if dubious individuals), there were criminal lawyers deeply versed in the abstrusities and tricks of the criminal law.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Well, you have no civil law, and no criminal law.
William Morris -- News from Nowhere

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