• 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 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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  • 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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  • one's self. Most criminal law is established by statute, which is to say that the laws are enacted by a legislature. Criminal law includes the punishment...
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    Act is to provide a general penal code for India. Though not the initial objective, the Act does not repeal the penal laws which were in force at the time...
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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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  • codification of all penal laws in the Philippines, the committee instead revised the old Penal Code and included all other penal laws only insofar as they...
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  • under Special Penal Laws. As long as the act is committed, then it is punishable as a crime under law. Not all violations of Special Penal Laws are mala prohibita...
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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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  • independent states into which the Zhou kingdom had fragmented codified their penal laws and inscribed them on bronze cauldrons. For example, at least two codifications...
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    The Consolidated Laws of the State of New York are the codification of the permanent laws of a general nature of New York enacted by the New York State...
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  • York First Degree Murder Laws". FindLaw. Retrieved June 29, 2023. "New York State Penal Law – Felony Classes Sentences | NY Law". ypdcrime.com. Retrieved...
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    January 4, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2016. "New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN". Findlaw. Retrieved October 10, 2019. "General Statute Chapters...
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  • The Penal Code contains "the most serious and most of the most well-known crimes" while more specialized crimes can be found in subject-specific laws such...
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    political basis for the new laws passed for several decades after 1695. Interdicts faced by Catholics and Dissenters under the Penal Laws were: Exclusion of Catholics...
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    denominations suffered severe political and economic privations under the Penal Laws. On 1 January 1801, in the wake of the republican United Irishmen Rebellion...
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    declaring his wish for new penal laws against refractory Presbyterians and lamented that he was not there in person to promote such a law. In response, the Parliament...
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  • military commander and dangerous contender for the throne. The Penal Laws were a series of laws which upheld the establishment of the Church of England against...
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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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  • 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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    various Penal Laws were enacted by the Irish Parliament primarily targeting Catholics of the aristocracy, landed and learned classes. Some of these laws, however...
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  • Spanish Código Penal). Besides those hate speech crimes, Spain also tackles hate speech through non criminal laws, such as article 23 of the Law 19/2007, against...
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    "New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN § 490.10". Findlaw. Retrieved 2019-06-02. "New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN § 490.05". Findlaw...
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    Roman Catholics, were excluded from power and land ownership under the penal laws. The second-largest group, the Presbyterians in Ulster, owned land and...
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  • The organs of state are governed by the Fundamental Law of Vatican City State. The Code of Penal Procedure governs tribunals and the Lateran Treaty governs...
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    of Penal Laws discriminated against all Christian faiths other than the established (Anglican) Church of Ireland. The principal victims of these laws were...
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    unconstitutional. Most of New York State's gun laws are covered in two sections of New York Penal Law: Article 265 - Firearms and Other Dangerous Weapons...
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    barley. The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic farmers, and represented British mercantilism. The Corn Laws blocked the import...
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  • Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws. Requirements to abjure (renounce) the temporal and spiritual authority...
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  • are prohibited. Also, most laws make no provision for the rare case of marriage between double first cousins. Incest laws may also include prohibitions...
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