Examples of Penal Laws in the following topics:
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- A code of laws was drawn up, beginning with penal laws, which were actually borrowed from the Bible.
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- By the penal law of the colony, any Catholic priest, who reappeared there after having once been driven out was subject to death.
- A code of laws was drawn up, beginning with penal laws, which were actually borrowed from the Bible.
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- Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime and civil law deals with disputes between organizations and individuals.
- Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.
- The law relating to civil wrongs and quasi-contract is part of civil law.
- The objectives of civil law are different from other types of law.
- The California Penal Code, the codification of criminal law and procedure in the U.S. state of California.
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- One of the potentially interesting results of trade agreements like NAFTA is that many products previously restricted by dumping laws, laws designed to keep out foreign products, would be allowed to be marketed.
- These laws were designed to prevent pricing practices that could seriously harm local competition.
- The laws were designed to prevent large producers from flooding markets with very low priced products, gain a monopoly, and then raise prices to very high levels.
- Those in favor of agreements argue that anti-dumping laws penalize those companies who are capable of competing in favor of those companies that are not competitive.
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- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example, breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as "offenses" or as "infractions. " Modern societies generally regard crimes as offenses against the public or the state, as distinguished from torts, which are wrongs against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action.
- This approach considers the complex realities surrounding the concept of crime and seeks to understand how changing social, political, psychological, and economic conditions may affect changing definitions of crime and the form of the legal, law-enforcement, and penal responses made by society.
- All such adjustments to crime statistics, together with the experience of people in their everyday lives, shape attitudes on the extent to which the state should use law or social engineering to enforce or encourage any particular social norm.
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- During the 2008 elections, oil companies spent a total of $132.2 million into lobbying for law reform.
- The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 was signed into law by President Bill Clinton .
- Penalizations include fines of over $50,000 and being reported to the United States Attorney.
- Organizations must elect to use the Public Charity Law, and so increase the allowable spending on lobbying to increase to 20% for the first $500,000 of their annual expenditures.
- Government officials with term limits form valuable connections that could help influence future law-making even when they are out of office.
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- Imprisonment as a form of criminal punishment became widespread in the United States just before the American Revolution, though penal incarceration efforts had been ongoing in England since as early as the 1500s, and prisons in the form of dungeons and various detention facilities had existed since long before then.
- Provincial laws in Massachusetts began to prescribe short terms in the workhouse for deterrence throughout the eighteenth century and, by mid-century, the first statutes mandating long-term hard labor in the workhouse as a penal sanction appeared.
- This replaced earlier, more traditional forms of community-based punishment such as penal servitude, banishment, and public shaming such as the pillory.
- This penal method, where prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, was implemented at Auburn State Prison and Sing Sing at Ossining.
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- The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 were a series of laws that aimed to outlaw speech that was critical of the government.
- They were signed into law by President John Adams and were intended as a direct political attack on the Democratic-Republicans.
- Democratic-Republicans across the country united in support of Lyon, paying his legal fees and penal fines.
- Thomas Jefferson, upon assuming the presidency, pardoned all of those still serving sentences under the Sedition Act, and in 1802, the House Judiciary Committee denounced the Sedition Act as unconstitutional and authorized the refund of penal fines that victims had paid.
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- The traditional focuses of sociology have included social stratification, social class, culture, social mobility, religion, secularization, law, and deviance.
- As all spheres of human activity are affected by the interplay between social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded to focus on more diverse subjects such as health, medical, military and penal institutions, the Internet, and the role of social activity in the development of scientific knowledge.
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- That is, a single agency may "legislate" by producing regulations; "adjudicate" by resolving disputes between parties; and "enforce" by penalizing regulation violations.
- The EPA was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.