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  • In English history, the penal laws were a series of laws that sought to enforce the State-decreed religious monopoly of the Church of England and, following...
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  • Penal laws may refer to: Criminal law Penal law (British), laws to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Catholicism Penal laws (Ireland)...
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  • In Ireland, the penal laws (Irish: Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the...
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    The Indian Penal Code (IPC) was the official criminal code in the Republic of India, inherited from British India after independence, until it was repealed...
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    Transportation Act 1717, the British government initiated the penal transportation of indentured servants to Britain's colonies in the Americas, although...
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    century BCE in Ancient Greece. The practice of penal transportation reached its height in the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries. Transportation...
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  • parliament in December 2023 to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which dated back to the period of British India. On 11 August 2023, Amit Shah, Minister...
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  • Penal law refers to criminal law. Penal law or Penal Law may also refer to: Penal laws against the Welsh 1401–2, discriminatory laws against the Welsh...
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  • The Penal Code of Myanmar is the official criminal code of Myanmar. The code was enacted on 1 May 1861 during British rule in Burma and is divided into...
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    The penal laws against the Welsh (Welsh: Deddfau Penyd) were a set of laws, passed by the Parliament of England in 1401 and 1402 that discriminated against...
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    The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences...
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  • The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United...
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    Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time. Such laws range from abortion being freely available on request...
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    Archdiocese of Baltimore. Founded in 1763, after the repeal of the British penal laws, as the first Catholic church in Frederick County, the parish occupied...
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    Pornography Laws Are a Backdoor for Censorship". Human Rights Watch. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-07-10. "Section 292 in The Indian Penal Code". indiankanoon...
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  • Section 377 is a British colonial penal code that criminalized all sexual acts "against the order of nature". The law was used to prosecute people engaging...
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    Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard...
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    blasphemous libel, blasphemy laws include all laws which give redress to those insulted on account of their religion. These blasphemy laws may forbid: the vilification...
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  • Governor General-in-Council. It is similar to the penal codes of countries formerly part of the British Empire in South and Southeast Asia, including Singapore...
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  • Criminal code (redirect from Penal code)
    A criminal code or penal code is a document that compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law. Typically a criminal...
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