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What does criminal law mean?

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Noun
  1. (law) The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment.
  2. (law) A specific statute, ordinance, regulation, or other source of law that deems an action to be a crime.
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There is no reason why a thug should be immune from the ordinary criminal law.
This is because one of the purposes of the criminal law is to assuage the feelings of the victims and their friends and relations.
Under Canadian criminal law, tobacco products and accessories require age of majority to be sold.
I spent vast amounts of time making reports on how to improve health and workers' compensation and the administration of criminal law.
It is also clear that the charge of assault against the second applicant is an offence under the criminal law as well as under the Prison Rules.
The barbarities and iniquities of the old criminal law also disappeared permanently.

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